News coverage of the Oregon "timber summit," the Gulf War video recording

Identifier

PUA_MS147_vid_091

Title

News coverage of the Oregon "timber summit," the Gulf War video recording

Description

A video featuring footage of NBC and ABC news coverage of a 1989 "Timber Summit" organized by the Oregon congressional delegation, including an interview with US Congressman Les AuCoin, and the Gulf War. 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. The footage is likely from between 1989 and 1991.

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).

Creator

NBC News

ABC News

Date: Year(s)

1989/1991

Date: Display

1989-1991

Subject

United States. Congress. House.

Legislators--United States

Environmentalism--Political aspects--United States

Persian Gulf War, 1991

Lumber trade--United States

Place

Oregon

United States

Extent

(1 video file: 39 min, 38 s)

Source

Pacific University Archives

Copyright

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

Format

MP4