Excerpt from Suitability, Direction, and Funding of Federal Economic Development Assistance Programs for Small, Timber-Dependent Communities in the Northwest: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Regulation, Business Opportunities, and Technology of the Committee on Small Business House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session, Portland, Or, December 15, 1993 Our region, traditionally the heartwood of the Nation's public timber base, is going through an extraordinarily difficult economic transition, perhaps the toughest since the Great Depression. The region's major cities, like Seattle and Portland, have diversified economies and have built some defenses against the shocks that are now reverberated through rural Oregon and Washington. But away from the cities, out in the woods where one and two mill towns have been dependent for generations on ever increasing cuts of the local National Forest timber base, there is unemploy ment, there is recession, and there is fear. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.