Part 1 of a recording of the Northwest Forest Conference, a "timber summit" held at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland on April 2, 1993. Meant to address the sometimes conflicting needs provided for by the region's forests, the conference featured participation by President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore.

Roundtable 1 was titled "Who is Affected and How." The conversation begins with prepared remarks by Portland Mayor Vera Katz, Oregon Governor Barbara Roberts, historian Kimbark McColl, Archbishop Thomas Murphy, Michael Draper (Executive Secretary of the Western Council of Industrial Workers), Diana Wales (lawyer, Roseburg, Oregon), Bob Spence (mill owner) and Patricia Lee (environmental educator).

Other participants in this roundtable included Bill Arthur (Sierra Club director), Nadine Bailey (logger spokeswoman), Nat Bingham (commercial fisherman), Buzz Eades (logger), John Hampton (CEO, Willamina Lumber Co.), Ken Marson (retail lumber yard operator), Larry Mason (Western Commercial Forest Action Committee), Margaret Powell (Member, Hoopa Tribe), Vic Sher (Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund attorney), Phyllis Strauger (mayor of Hoquiam, Washington), Frank Tallerico (Superintendent of Schools, Siskiyou County), Meca Wawona (founder of New Growth Forestry, Ukiah, California).

Digitized from a VHS original held in the Oregon Sea Grant Communications Videotapes and DVDs (FV185 - SG1:021), Special Collections and Archives Research Center, Oregon State University Libraries.