Tillamook
Tillamook County business and civic leaders are creating plans
to transition the area’s economy from one based on
logging and fishing to one that embraces and promotes
ecotourism. A late-April event sponsored by the Economic Development Council of Tillamook
County focused on the untapped potential of the
region’s five major estuaries and the breadth of
nature-based tourism activities in Tillamook. In five years,
predicts event organizer Marc Hinz, “Tillamook will be
the Hood River of kayaking.” Plans include mapping the
natural water system and improving critical infrastructure
needs such as cell-phone coverage and launch sites. Until
now, Hinz says, there has been no economic development plan for
the county. Hood River, watch out.
