page_title: Concow, California
section_title: Informal market
hierarchical_section_title: Concow, California / Economy / Informal market
caption_attribution_description: English: Concow Pot Garden Image by the United States Forest Service and Butte County Sheriff's Department - See more at: http://www.zoomvillage.com/newsStory.cfm/18086/Pot-Farm-Raid-in-Concow&amp;isArchived=1#sthash.9JnkcYn2.dpuf
context_page_description: Concow is an unincorporated community and census-designated place that was until 2018 primarily residential and small scale cultivation in the Sierra Nevada foothills covering eastern Butte County, California. Due to a decline in employment and repeated wildfires, over the past hundred years the population declined from several thousand to several dozen. On November 8, 2018, a wildfire, the Camp Fire, cleared most of Concow and destroyed the adjacent municipality of Paradise. The CDP is named after the Native American tribe that is indigenous to the area, the Concow Maidu. The original inhabitants ate salmon from the Feather River, acorns and pine nuts, venison, nō-kōm-hē-i'-nē, and other sources of food which abounded in the California foothills.
context_section_description: In the late 1990s, the CDP became known regionally for a significant domestic product consisting of informal market production and commerce.
  The region contains marijuana agricultural production, large irrigated plantations were discovered during the 2008 fire.
  The 2000 domestic product from legitimate income sources is approximately $17.5 million, during and after the 2008 fires an estimated $50 million worth of marijuana was removed, indicating that the region's per-capita income is under-reported. The region's marijuana production is 1/3 of 1% of California's $14 billion (2013) dollar total production. At the 2010 population of 710, that is a per capita income of $70,000 per person. The 2008 fire changed the regional micro-climate with the result that crop yields dropped.
caption: Typical Concow Pot Garden (2013)
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