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

Identifier

PUA_MS147_vid_092

Title

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

Description

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).

Creator

NBC News

Date: Year(s)

1989

Date: Display

1989

Subject

United States. Congress. House.

Legislators--United States

Environmentalism--Political aspects--United States

Lumber trade--United States

Timber--Oregon

Environmental policy

Place

Oregon

United States

Extent

(1 video file: 4 min, 55 s)

Source

Pacific University Archives

Copyright

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

Format

MP4