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...Mineral King controversy has virtually disappeared from the front pages, it is still an important battle for the environmental movement. There are strong arguments against turning this valley into a bustling resort. Visitors protest that its beauty is unique and should be preserved in an increasingly developed Sierra Nevada. A resort in the valley could also have an adverse impact on nearby Sequoia National Park, which virtually surrounds Mineral King. For example, development could force wildlife out of the valley into the park. A prime candidate for such an exodus is the Mineral King deer herd, which now winters where...
EVEN JOYCE MAYNARD couldn't have chosen a better scenario. In 1969 the U.S. Forest Service announced its approval of a plan for a mammoth, year-round resort in California's Mineral King valley, 16,000 acres of national forest land high in the southern Sierra Nevada. Controversy erupts, fueled by the public's revived awareness of environmental abuse. Behind the contested $35-40 million project is not ITT but the corporation created by a childhood exemplar of the Leave-It-to-Beaver generation--the father of Bugs Bunny and Donald Duck, Walt Disney. Thus fell another idol of Maynard...
...visited the preserve. The department cautioned against such actions in the future, but not a single officer will be subject to disciplinary action. Among the guests: Vice Admiral W.D. Houser, deputy chief of naval operations for air warfare; Admiral John P. Weinel, former planning director for the Joint Chiefs; Nevada Democratic Senator Howard Cannon, chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Tactical Air Power; and Democratic Representative Robert Legett of the House Armed Services Committee. All were in a strong position to help Northrop sell...
...thorough is Lewis' dedication to Western fiction that he leaves the family farm in Iowa to enroll in a Nevada college that promises to put the finishing touches on his art. Instead, the college puts them to Lewis. The entire faculty consists of two con men in the back room of a fleabag hotel, bilking suckers by mail. Fleeing this harsh reality, Lew is also accidently makes off with a strongbox full of several thousand dollars worth of tuition money bamboozled from the suckers of the nation's heartland. Wandering in the desert, lugging the strongbox, Lewis...
...Loeb should know.He was born in Washington. D.C., and his official residence is in Nevada...