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

Identifier

PUA_MS147_vid_063

Title

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

Description

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).

Date: Year(s)

1992

Date: Display

February 20, 1992

Subject

United States. Congress. House.

Legislators--United States

Lumber trade--United States

Place

Oregon

United States

Extent

(1 video file: 29 min, 50 s)

Source

Pacific University Archives

Copyright

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

Format

MP4