Well the county lands were given to the counties over 80 years ago designated to to pay for their county governments. Under the spotted owl deal, Clinton and the dems guaranteed payments of at least 50 million per year to help close the gap when the county has no resources to pay judges, juries, public defenders, sheriffs, jailers, etc. Guess what our county commissioners have to do every year when it comes up in the budget in DC, fly there and beg and beg to give us the 50 million handout. Meanwhile thousands of raptors, owls, eagles, pelicans, osprey's are being bassomated by the environmentalist wind mills, the same ones who shut down the timber industry to save an owl.
The people of Oregon who inhabit all that red space on the election maps are held hostage by those little dots of blue on the coast. Unfortunately, the rest of the country joined you in 2008. If we don’t take it back it will only get worse.