Rural counties should look beyond just federal forest and logging revenues to private forest logging practices, log exports, and tax subsidies.

Erosion and fertilizer run off from large private clearcuts in their watersheds are costing rural counties big bucks to remedy. Unrestricted and un-taxed private forest log exports are loosing tens of thousands of family wage jobs along with potential revenues.

Oregon's 2016/17 Tax Expenditure Report shows private forest owners, especially industrial, receiving about 532 million dollars in largely unearned tax subsidies at about 100 million dollars direct cost (called "shift") to the rest of us.

Weyco, an out-of-state global corporation, one of the regions largest log exporters and the largest private property owner in Lane County, pays about 2% of the tax on every dollar of real property value than I pay on my house. Unfair.

Commissioners need to look beyond just the Feds to fund their counties with forest and harvest monies.