SHORT TAKES : Singers Aid Environmentalists
Environmentalists are working with singers Carole King and John Oates to have logging and mining outlawed on 13 million acres of Northwest wilderness.
The two appeared Wednesday at a news conference to push a proposal from the Alliance for the Wild Rockies, based in Missoula, Mont.
“Some environmental groups are like the unpopular kids at a high school dance who stand around in the corner because no one wants to dance with them,” said Oates, of Hall & Oates.
“I’m here to see if I can’t get someone to dance with them,” he said.
King said taxpayer money should not be used to drill, build roads and clear-cut trees in national forests.
“If we stopped spending federal money to destroy our public lands maybe we wouldn’t have to raise the taxes that President Bush talked about this morning,” she said.
The alliance wants to ban logging, mining and road-building on public lands in Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Oregon and Washington.
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