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Yvette Herrell: “We're prohibited by our own government regulations [from…”

Featuring: Yvette Herrell, Republican | Former U.S. House, New Mexico, District 2

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Episode 619: Former Rep. Yvette Herrell talks Ruidoso fires, economic issues/trade/spending

Published | Video Starts at 08:49

… allocated to go in and manage some of these forest lands, these that we see in New Mexico and around the western states. But they're unable to do so because We're prohibited by our own government regulations [from managing forests]. which makes no sense at all. So what we've done is we've. We've really put a real hamstring on our watersheds. I mean, with this overgrowth, you know, we should have about 50 tree an acre. (08:49–08:52)

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Asserts that government regulations prohibit forest management.

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