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Timber Payments?
For more than ten years now, services and programs in rural counties have depended on payments made by the federal government to make up for the money they used to receive from logging on federal lands. On past shows, we've talked about how rural counties depend on this money and how they might manage without it. The climate in Congress now, however, couldn't be worse for securing any kind of replacement, with the ticking August 2nd deadline to raise the federal debt ceiling and no deal in sight.
Do you live in a rural county that's dependent on timber payments? What services or programs will be affected if these payments aren't replaced? What should Congress do?
Tagged as: forest · logging · rural · rural economy · timber payment
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