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Environmental scan at county workshop: aging population, seasonal housing and wildfire risks highlighted
Summary
Facilitator Galen Ellis presented an environmental scan showing a steadily declining and aging population, a housing stock with many seasonal units, an economy weighted toward small businesses and public-sector employment, and repeated wildfire and flood events that shape county priorities.
A central element of the Plumas County strategic-planning workshop was an environmental scan presented by facilitator Galen Ellis outlining demographic, economic and natural-resource factors that shape county services and strategy.
Ellis summarized the county’s demographic trends as a steady population decline in recent decades and a median age “over 50,” compared with about 37 for California. The scan noted ‘‘urban drift’’ of younger adults leaving after high school or college for jobs elsewhere and only limited in‑migration tied to seasonal or…
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