Endangered Species Act Dominates Oregon Senate Race

The World

Henry Sessions of Oregon Public Broadcasting reports on the pitched election battle between four-term Republican incumbent Bob Packwood and veteran Democratic Congressman Les AuCoin for the U.S. Senate. The race has largely become a referendum on the fate of the region’s forests, the northern spotted owl and the Endangered Species Act.

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