“Sun Valley Forum Honors Eco Warrior Brock Evans and Others” Eye on Sun Valley

Carole King’s “I Feel the Earth Move” blared across the lawn at Trail Creek Cabin Monday night as members of the Sun Valley Forum toasted one of America’s pioneer eco-warriors.

King, who has spent decades fighting for the environment herself, presented the Sun Valley Forum’s inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award to Brock Evans, who had a long career in Washington State and Washington, D.C., as an advocate with the Sierra Club, the National Audubon Society and the Endangered Species Coalition, helping to pass the Endangered Species Act in 1973.

“Today, for some, that’s in question so we must fight even harder,” she said. “The government spends billions of dollars on clearcutting. And this year they fired our neighbors under the pretense of saving money. They say they need to log lands for housing, but these lands provide housing for beetles and other wildlife.”

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