Les AuCoin Collection

Representative Les AuCoin at the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

Representative Les AuCoin stands with a map in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. In typed notes about the image, AuCoin writes: "My visit to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. I helped write the legislation that created the refuge. In the 1980s, the port of Portland let me know that if Regan's oil drilling proposal went through, Portland's shipyards might stand a good chance to do a lot of chip repair work. I was a champion of shipyards but dubious about this proposal. I felt I had an obligation to go to the refuge and see for myself what its environmental values were. I left convinced that oil drilling would be an outrageous abuse of this fragile ecosystem." This is one of a collection of digitized objects from the Les AuCoin Papers (MS.147) at the Pacific University Archives. The original photo remains with the AuCoin family.

1987

Legislators--United States

Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (Alaska)

Environmental policy

Alaska

PUA_MS147_23

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