If you missed the story on OPB today live at Timberline Lodge you can catch the podcast here. OPB, Oregon Public Broadcasting, is presenting a series called Mt. Hood Inc. This series is to cover the "value" of Mt. Hood, economically and otherwise.

Beginning the week of June 13th the following areas will be covered on OPB:

Business, Jobs, Products, Brand, Costs and Economic Impact

Find more news, photos and details to follow the week's stories check here.

This gives a valuable background of many details about our Mt. Hood area from tourism, to jobs, numbers of visitors, how people feel about the mountain and more. This will be likely the most comprehensive analysis of the mountain area that has been done in a long time.

For example, did you know that 1.7 million dollars of board feet of timber was cut in the Mt. Hood National Forest in 2010?