Changes in federal forest management, enactment of environmental policies, recessions and a shift to a global economy dramatically impacted counties between the 1980s and 1990s. In the 1990s, counties began experiencing a shift away from traditional natural resource extraction activities – amidst changing demographics resulting from rural restructuring taking place...
Public land ownership withdraws property from the tax base of local
property tax districts. Publicly-managed lands occupy approximately 17.5
million acres of forested lands in Oregon (inclusive of federal, state, and county
ownership). To compensate local taxing districts for foregone property tax
collections, Congress enacted a series of federal revenue-sharing...