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Organic Regionalism, Corporate Liberalism, and Federal Land Management: Creating Pacific Northwest Timber Towns

Department of Planning, Public Policy ci Management at the University of Oregon; mhibbard{at}oregon.uoregon.edu

An underdeveloped area of planning history is the role of federal policy in community deveopment in the American West. Federal policy shaped the West not just in some vague overall sense; its actions provided the impetus for the creation of specific communities in specific places to take advantage of specific opportunties. This paper describes the attempt to create permanent, stable natural resource-based comunities in the west. I begin with a description of the problem situation in the early part of the century. Next, I discuss efforts at policy reform, focusing on the example of the Pacific Nortwest "timber belt." I then use examples of community development drawn from experences in the "timber belt" to illustrate the emergence of the federal-corporate collabortion. Finally, I discuss the consequences for the region and its communities.

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