Les AuCoin's Books
Aug.04.2006
Fire, paradoxically, is an integral part of healthy forest ecosystems. The biggest problem with wildland fire is suppression, not burning. After a century of aggressive fire suppression, we now see clearly that fire is as integral to forests as soils, sun, wind, water, insects, snow, ice and other natural processes.
It was the European invasion that labeled fire as "bad," and...
In order to write about life first you must live it.
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—Ernest Hemmingway
About Les
Les AuCoin, a retired nine-term U.S. Congressman from Oregon, is an author, essayist, ex-newspaper columnist, and public radio commentator. He was a co-author of the Wildfire: A Century of Failed Forest Policy, an anthology and is working on his first...
Causes Les AuCoin Supports
ACLU, National Public Radio, our local food bank, NARAL, Southern Poverty Law Center, the Sierra Club, Trout Unlimited, The Bozeman Symphony.
Les’s Favorite Books
I know Why The Cage Bird Sings, Plainsong, The Woman and the Ape, A Flag For Sunrise, Quest For Karla trilogy (Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; Smiley's People;...