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this year. among the legislative solutions being discussed in salem, having the state take over functions like elections, building inspections and taxation, and letting the governor impose attacks to pay for public safety. there are real people in these counties, that if the state does need to step in and perform some services for a certain period ever time then we need to be there to do that. reporter: the state has not yet figured out how it would pay for those services, heather. heather: are there other options? reporter: well, yeah, people in these timber counties say it s pretty simple, allow for more logging on federal forest land. the problem is that would take concessions from environmentalists who have been able to stop timber sales by suing them to death. state and federal lawmakers in both parties have talked about come bro myself for years but nothing ever gets done. it s less expensive to file a federal injunction and stop a timber sale in oregon than it is to get