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Scogin served on three House committees: Natural Resources, Education, and Health and Welfare .<ref name=stfc/> He was active in efforts to fight crime in Louisiana: "The public is still insisting that those who violate the law be taken off the streets."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.burkfoster.com/1980sAlternatives.doc|title=Louisiana Corrections in the 1980s: In Search of Alternatives|publisher=burkfoster.com|accessdate=April 24, 2010}}</ref> He supported efforts by the interest group Save Our Wetlands to halt the receding of the [[Gulf of Mexico]] coastline in Louisiana. Save Our Wetlands filed suit against the [[United States Army Corps of Engineers]] to block the draining of vast acreage about New Orleans International Airport. The Corps proposed that the airport be moved to St. Charles Parish, and that new levees be built in the drained areas so that housing developments could be constructed.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://web.archive.org/web/20080827174911/http://saveourwetlands.org/edenislehistory.htm|title=The Creation of Save Our Wetlands and its Early Legal Battles|publisher=saveourwetlands.org|accessdate=April 24, 2010}}</ref>​

Scogin served on three House committees: Natural Resources, Education, and Health and Welfare .<ref name=stfc/> He was active in efforts to fight crime in Louisiana: "The public is still insisting that those who violate the law be taken off the streets."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.burkfoster.com/1980sAlternatives.doc|title=Louisiana Corrections in the 1980s: In Search of Alternatives|publisher=burkfoster.com|accessdate=April 24, 2010}}</ref> He supported efforts by the interest group Save Our Wetlands to halt the receding of the [[Gulf of Mexico]] coastline in Louisiana. Save Our Wetlands filed suit against the [[United States Army Corps of Engineers]] to block the draining of vast acreage about New Orleans International Airport. The Corps proposed that the airport be moved to St. Charles Parish, and that new levees be built in the drained areas so that housing developments could be constructed.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://web.archive.org/web/20080827174911/http://saveourwetlands.org/edenislehistory.htm|title=The Creation of Save Our Wetlands and its Early Legal Battles|publisher=saveourwetlands.org|accessdate=April 24, 2010}}</ref>​

Scogin was among the citizens and leaders of St. Tammany Parish who opposed the Army Corps of Engineers "Hurricane Barrier Project", having viewed the proposal as an environmental threat to Lake Pontchartrain and a bottomless reservoir for the flooding of Slidell and the entire parish. The dissidents feared that water, with nowhere to run off,  would top the dam/barrier and flood their communities. Scogin was prophetic in that the Corps project, had it been constructed, presumably would have created a flood bowl similar to what happened to New Orleans during [[Hurricane Katrina]] in 2005.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://saveourwetlands.org/response2latimes.html|title=Response to the L.A. Times Article, "A Barrier That Could Have Been"|publisher=saveourwetlands.org|accessdate=April 24, 2010}}</ref>​

Scogin was among the citizens and leaders of St. Tammany Parish who opposed the Army Corps of Engineers "Hurricane Barrier Project", having viewed the proposal as an environmental threat to Lake Pontchartrain and a bottomless reservoir for the flooding of Slidell and the entire parish. The dissidents feared that water, with nowhere to run off,  would top the dam/barrier and flood their communities. Scogin was prophetic in that the Corps project, had it been constructed, presumably would have created a flood bowl similar to what happened to New Orleans during [[Hurricane Katrina]] in 2005.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://saveourwetlands.org/response2latimes.html|title=Response to the L.A. Times Article, "A Barrier That Could Have Been"|publisher=saveourwetlands.org|accessdate=April 24, 2010; no longer on-line.}}</ref>​

Scogin was first elected to the House from District 76 as a Democrat in the [[general election]] held on February 1, 1972, when his party's nominee, Edwin Edwards, defeated Republican [[David C. Treen]], then of Jefferson Parish and later of St. Tammany, to win his first term as governor of Louisiana. Scogin was preceded by three at-large House members, including Lawrence A. Sheridan, who later took the District 75 seat in Washington Parish, before the state went to complete single-member districting in the 1971-1972 election cycle.<ref name=dist76>{{cite web|url=http://www.fanthefire.tv/wiki/House_District_76/|title=House District 76|publisher=fanthefire.tv|accessdate=April 24, 2010; no longer on-line.}}</ref>​

Scogin was first elected to the House from District 76 as a Democrat in the [[general election]] held on February 1, 1972, when his party's nominee, Edwin Edwards, defeated Republican [[David C. Treen]], then of Jefferson Parish and later of St. Tammany, to win his first term as governor of Louisiana. Scogin was preceded by three at-large House members, including Lawrence A. Sheridan, who later took the District 75 seat in Washington Parish, before the state went to complete single-member districting in the 1971-1972 election cycle.<ref name=dist76>{{cite web|url=http://www.fanthefire.tv/wiki/House_District_76/|title=House District 76|publisher=fanthefire.tv|accessdate=April 24, 2010; no longer on-line.}}</ref>​