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Ray Ring on Jackson's housing crisis

Nelson Harvey Audio June 10, 2013 From the print edition
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KDNK, a public radio station in Carbondale, Colo., regularly interviews High Country News writers and editors, in a feature they call "Sounds of the High Country." Here, Nelson Harvey chats with Ray Ring about the clash between conservation goals and the need for affordable housing in Jackson, Wyoming.

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