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Harriet Hageman: “We import lumber instead of producing it domestically.”

Featuring: Harriet Hageman, Republican | U.S. House Wyoming At-Large Congressional District

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Published | Video Starts at 05:48

Yet over the last 25 years, the environmentalist radical judg judges have done everything in their power to try to ratchet down what we can produce on our national forest, despite the fact that that's what they were created for. So We import lumber instead of producing it domestically. We import lumber. That affects. And that affects places like Encampment. You know, Encampment used to be a fabulous logging town. Saratoga, same thing. (05:48–05:52)

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Asserts that the U.S. imports lumber rather than producing it domestically.

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