SUN photo/Ed FincherRepublican Rep. Scott Tipton held a town hall meeting in the Ross Aragon Community Center in Pagosa Springs last Thursday, and while he began by focusing on the bills he sponsored during the last congressional session, he said the main purpose of the meeting was to hear the concerns of his constituents.
The first bill Tipton mentioned was his Healthy Forest Management and Wildfire Prevention Act (H.R. 818), which was combined with Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings’s (R-WA) Restoring Healthy Forests for Healthy Communities Act (H.R. 1526). The U.S. House passed the resulting comprehensive Hastings-Tipton forest management package (H.R. 1526) last summer.
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