A copy of The AuCoin Report titled "AuCoin Works on River Protection; Backs Bill to Preserve Artic Wilderness". The AuCoin Report was a newsletter produced by the office of Representative Les AuCoin to update Oregon voters about his work in Congress. This newsletter discusses three recent steps Representative AuCoin took to preserve the environment: supporting the wilderness designation of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge; introducing legislation to grant special recognition to dozens of Oregon rivers; and introducing legislation to name a portion of the Upper Klamath a National Wild and Scenic River. This is one of a collection of digitized objects from the Les AuCoin Papers (MS.147) at the Pacific University Archives. See also PUA_MS147_23 for image of Representative AuCoin visiting 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.
