Editing Columbia County, Oregon (section)

==Economy==
The primary industries are wood products and paper manufacturing, trade, construction and horticulture.<ref>[http://www.qualityinfo.org Oregon Labor Market Information System]</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Analysis |first=US Department of Commerce, BEA, Bureau of Economic |title=Bureau of Economic Analysis |url=http://www.bea.gov |access-date=April 11, 2018 |website=www.bea.gov |language=EN-US}}</ref> The extensive stands of old-growth timber, which had attracted many of the early settlers to the area, were completely logged over by the 1950s.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Oregon Secretary of State: Columbia County History |url=https://sos.oregon.gov/archives/records/county/Pages/columbia-history.aspx |access-date=April 11, 2018 |website=sos.oregon.gov |language=en}}</ref> Second-growth timber provides the raw material for local lumber and paper mills. About half the county's workforce commutes out of the county to work, most to the nearby [[Portland, Oregon]], metro area.<ref>[https://www.census.gov U.S. Census Bureau]</ref><!--can we get a more specific link here? Does PSU have this figure?--> Columbia County's average non-farm employment was 10,740 in 2007.<ref>[http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/41/41009.html Columbia County and Oregon QuickFacts] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629023037/http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/41/41009.html |date=June 29, 2011}} - United States Census Bureau. (2012)</ref> The five largest private employers in Columbia County are Fred Meyer, Cascade Tissue Group, Wal-Mart, OMIC, USIA,<ref>{{Cite web |title=UnderSea Industrial Apparel |url=https://www.usia.com/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141009102933/https://usia.com/ |archive-date=October 9, 2014 |access-date=September 29, 2014}}</ref> and USG.<ref>[http://www.columbiacountyoregon.com Columbia County Economic Team]</ref>