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The Sierra Club, the Disney Company, and and the Rise of Environmental Law

  • Center for Earth Jurisprudence 6441 East Colonial Drive Orlando, FL, 32807 United States (map)

In 1965, the Walt Disney Company proposed building a massive ski resort in the Sierra Nevada mountains, which was approved by the federal government in 1969, and would have irreversibly altered the practically untouched Mineral King Valley, a magnificently beautiful Alpine area. At first it seemed inevitable that this expanse of wild natural land would be radically changed and turned over to a private corporation. But then the scrappy Sierra Club pushed back with a lawsuit that ultimately propelled the modern environmental law era.

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