Oregon County Update #16- Douglas County- Part III
Time to shift to the rural parts of the county, which accounted for 58% of the total county vote in '16....
Although I came from an environmentalist family background, we all knew the importance of the Timber industry to the Oregon economy, and how the local schools, county, and state revenue was heavily dependent upon the tax receipts that were shared with state/county/local governments...
The last thing any environmentalist/timber industry worker in Oregon wants to see is raw product shipped overseas instead of being milled in Oregon regardless if it was Japan in the '80s or China in the 2010s....
Ok--- personal rant aside, but it comes from the heart, and the vast majority of Douglas County doesn't really give that much of s**t when it comes to items like God, Gays, and Guns, since religion is a personal affair, who cares who sleeps with who, and yeah I like to hunt and/or own an AR-15 (Like one of my son-in-laws) but still common sense gun owners.
So what do unemployed loggers and rural residents do in places like Douglas County do when the economy goes South? Grow Marijuana.... 
Now, you also have people like my wife's father that after his first wife died moved to the Mountains around the Happy Valley/Wolfe Creek/ Glendale area and bought 80 acres, of which 50% was timbered, had about 40 cows in the cleared pastured areas, was a USMC proud veteran, who had a few guns, shotguns in particular to keep the Bears and Cougars from getting too close to the house or livestock.....
If not weed, perhaps vines. Roseburg and the Umpqua valley is a good region for wine. One of my favorite pinot noirs is from Elkton.
