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| | Hull backs forest thinning |
 | | Jane Dee Hull met Thursday with top federal and state officials to discuss forest priorities and ways to avoid a future forest wildfire disaster like the Rodeo-Chediski Fire, which destroyed 426 homes and burned 468,000 acres of prime ponderosa timber. |
 | | Francie Noyes, spokesperson for Gov. Hull, told the Eastern Arizona Courier that "the governor does believe in general you ought to thin forests to avoid these kinds of fires. |
 | | However, when Gov. Hull visited Show Low on Sunday afternoon, June 23, at the height of the threat to Show Low, she spoke somberly of the danger posed to Arizona's forests and laid some of the blame on environmentalists for the severity of the Rodeo-Chediski Fire. |
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