In 1971, the Environmental Protection Agency created the DOCUMERICA Project, a program designed to document and catalogue the effects of the EPA in its efforts towards environmental conservation. After six years, the program was shut down, but the end result was a massive archive of images gathered by over 100 freelance photographers from all across America. A large part of these photographs are now housed on the US National Archives' online catalogue (as well as its Flickr page). These are my favorites.
Downtown Core Area of Portland, after 7 P.M. on November 2 1973, During the State’s Energy Crisis with Few Commercial and Neon Lighting Displays. This Photo Looks Toward the West with the Willamette River in the Foreground
Photographer: David Falconer
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Fingerlings the Size of Paper Clips at the Eagle Creek Fish Hatchery, Near the Cascade Locks on the Columbia River, 1973
Photographer: David Falconer
Looking Down Southwest Broadway in Portland, During the Energy Crisis Shows Limited Lighting on a Misty Evening, 1973
Photographer: David Falconer
Stacked Autos Are Crushed and Shipped to Japan, Then Return to the United States as Toyotas and Datsuns to Begin the Cycle Once Again, 1974
Photographer: David Falcaoner
Actual Demonstration by the Fire Department Training Station, 1974
Photographer: David Falconer
