Dawn at Mineral King Valley: The Sierra Club, the Disney Company, and the Rise of Environmental Law

by Selmi, Daniel P.
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ISBN: 9780226816197
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The story behind the historic Mineral King Valley case, which reveals how the Sierra Club protected wildland from Disney's ski resort development and launched a new environmental era in America.

In our current age of climate change-induced panic, it's hard to imagine a time when private groups seeking to enforce environmental protection laws in the courts were not active. It wasn't until 1972, however, that a David and Goliath-esque Supreme Court showdown involving the Sierra Club and Disney set a revolutionary legal precedent for the era of environment activism we live in today.

Set against the backdrop of the environmental movement that swept the country in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Dawn at Mineral King Valley tells the engaging story of how the Forest Service, the Disney company, and the Sierra Club each struggled to adapt to the new, rapidly changing political landscape of environmental consciousness in postwar America. Proposed in 1965 and approved by the federal government in 1969, Disney's vast development plan would have irreversibly altered the practically untouched Mineral King Valley, a beautiful alpine area in the Sierra Nevada mountains. At first, the plan was met with unanimous approval from the press and elected officials--it seemed inevitable that another pocket of wild natural land would be radically changed and turned over to profit a massive corporation. Then the small, scrappy Sierra Club forcefully pushed back with litigation that propelled the modern environmental era by allowing interest groups to bring lawsuits against environmentally destructive projects.

An expert on environmental law and appellate advocacy, Daniel P. Selmi uses his authoritative narrative voice to recount the complete history of this revolutionary legal battle and the ramifications that continue today, almost 50 years later.

  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Author: Selmi, Daniel P.
  • ISBN: 9780226816197
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 9.00 x 1.25
  • Number Of Pages: 344
  • Publication Year: 2022

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