@robrowe, as a child I didn't know how unique my life was. Now when I speak of riding horses, taking care of livestock, fishing, hunting, the huge Douglas Fir rain forest of the Pacific Northwest people say how lucky I was as a child. I would like to go back to that simpler time, we lived like that because living in the country wasn't expensive. Now living in the country and owning land is too expensive for most.
Also our federal government cut down most of our old growth forests...Oregon is not the same without it's huge forests.