LEAH NASH PHOTOGRAPHY

STORIES | ESSAYS: Rural Poverty in Oregon

Wade and George live in mobile homes in the yard of Wade's mother's home in Dorena, OR. Neither work and George collects $900 a month in disability because of a back problem. Wade spent 19 years fighting wild fires but then was forced to stop when he started having seizures in 1998.
Wade and George live in mobile homes in the yard of Wade's mother's home in Dorena, OR. Neither work and George collects $900 a month in disability because of a back problem. Wade spent 19 years fighting wild fires but then was forced to stop when he started having seizures in 1998.