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I have worked for Ry Timber in Townsend for 32 years. This year has been the worst. I have not worked a 40-hour week since March. In the meantime, forests are dying and burning up.

The Forest Service, BLM and DNRC are listening to people from New York instead of the true stewards of the land: the logger, the miner, the rancher. These people understand conservation, timely harvest and fire mitigation.

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton do not know the depression of filling out unemployment paperwork while breathing the smoke of western fires. They do not see the vanishing ways of life in the West; skyscrapers are their way.

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are from New York. They do not know what it takes to make a living in the West -- natural resources. We are not leeches; we cannot feed off each other like they do in New York. The West simply does not have the population.

Out of those running for president, one has experience governing in the West: Libertarian Gary Johnson.

Doug Purcell

Townsend

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