Excerpt from Importance of Timber-Based Employment to the Douglas Fir Region, 1959 to 1971 To explore employment changes in relatively small areas, we divided the 38-county region into 14 economic areas, based essentially on commuting distances and shopping patterns (fig. The largest and most rapidly grow ing city in each economic area is identified as the growth center. The growth center and other communities in each economic area are linked together by a variety of economic ties. In Oregon, employment trends from 1959 to 1971 were mixed. To illustrate, we selected covered employment in the lumber and wood products industries (including furniture and Astoria and Corvallis suffered decreases of 26 and 18 percent, respectively, and Portland and Eugene showed increases of 9 and 12 percent in this industry group (table In Washington, the trend was nearly all downwards: only Port Angeles showed a substantial gain. 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.