"Don't Get Hosed by Political Firefighters: How Political Framing Influences Fire Policy" essay

Title

"Don't Get Hosed by Political Firefighters: How Political Framing Influences Fire Policy" essay

Description

An essay by former US Congressman Les AuCoin titled "Don't Get Hosed by Political Firefighters: How Political Framing Influences Fire Policy," likely written sometime during the second term of the George W. Bush Administration. The abstract for the essay states "The Bush White House carefully chose the phrase 'healthy forests' to characterize its effort to increase logging in the public's national forests. It was a masterpiece of political 'framing' -- the art of creating a central organizing idea or context for an issue through use of selection, emphasis, exclusion, and elaboration. 'Healthy forests' evokes a sense of environmental protection and personal safety at a time of deep fear of wildland fire." Former Congressman AuCoin's essay also centers around the Yellowstone fires of 1988.

This is one of a collection of digitized objects 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).

Identifier

PUA_MS147_551

Creator

AuCoin, Les

Date

2005/2009

Date Created

2005-2009

Spatial Coverage

United States

Subject

Legislators--United States

Yellowstone National Park

Environmental protection--United States

Wildfires--Environmental aspects--United States

Timber--Oregon

Environmental policy

Source

Les AuCoin Papers, Pacific University Archives

Rights

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

Type

Text