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September 29, 2009

Agriculture Secretary Visits Idaho, Talks Forests

COEUR D'ALENE, ID - US Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack was in the Northwest today to try to build support for the Obama administration’s fire prevention strategies. Vilsack toured a wood pellet plant in southern Idaho. He used it as an example of what can be done with the byproducts of a forest that is thinned to reduce the chances of huge wildfires.

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Posted on September 29, 2009 at 11:32 AM in Environment & Habitat |

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