Digital Exhibits

NBC News story on the Oregon "timber summit" video recording

A video featuring footage of a NBC News story covering a 1989 "Timber Summit" held in Salem, Oregon organized by the Oregon congressional delegation. The news story included an interview with US Congressman Les AuCoin. The 1980s and early 1990s in Oregon were 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).

NBC News

1989

PUA_MS147_vid_092

United States. Congress. House.

Legislators--United States

Environmentalism--Political aspects--United States

Lumber trade--United States

Timber--Oregon

Environmental policy

Oregon

United States

(1 video file: 4 min, 55 s)

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

Pacific University Archives

MP4