Population
The total population in the Emerald Triangle is 236,250 according to the 2010 census. The majority of the population is widely spread throughout the woody hills that make up the area. In this region, the city of Eureka has the highest population with only 27,191 people; and the second largest, Ukiah, is only 16,075. Locals in the Emerald Triangle have been quoted saying "All of the service economies are totally dependent on marijuana"; and in addition to marijuana sales, pot growing helps small businesses such as garden supply stores at the beginning of the season, or just about anything come harvest season in the area.
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Famous quotes containing the word population:
“Like other cities created overnight in the Outlet, Woodward acquired between noon and sunset of September 16, 1893, a population of five thousand; and that night a voluntary committee on law and order sent around the warning, “if you must shoot, shoot straight up!””
—State of Oklahoma, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“O for a man who is a man, and, as my neighbor says, has a bone in his back which you cannot pass your hand through! Our statistics are at fault: the population has been returned too large. How many men are there to a square thousand miles in this country? Hardly one.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.”
—Germaine Greer (b. 1939)