Les AuCoin Collection

"Temporary injunction on BLM timber sales" 1992 program hosted by AuCoin video recording

A video featuring footage of U.S. Congressman Les AuCoin hosting a televised press conference from Washington, D.C. reacting to U.S. District Judge Helen Frye's decision to impose a temporary injunction on the entirety of the BLM's timber sales program. AuCoin expresses his disappointment in the decision, its impact on the timber industry, and the recent activities of the BLM, including the BLM's failure to provide an environmental impact statement on its sales program. He took questions from reporters who called in over the phone. The early 1990s in Oregon was marked by a declining timber industry, including a large-scale debate between environmentalists (including members of the ESA Committee, the "God Squad") concerned about protecting the habitat of the endangered northern spotted owl and the members of the logging industry who argued that the Endangered Species Act and its regulations reduced the number of jobs for timber workers.

This is a digitized version of an analog videorecording from the Les AuCoin Papers (MS.147) at the Pacific University Archives. AuCoin served in the Oregon House of Representatives (1971-1975) and in the United States House of Representatives from Oregon's 1st District (1975-1993).

PUA_MS147_vid_063

February 20, 1992

United States. Congress. House.

Legislators--United States

Lumber trade--United States

Oregon

United States

(1 video file: 29 min, 50 s)

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/

Pacific University Archives

MP4