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ALTHOUGH THE 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...
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...
...been six years since the Forest Service revealed its plans; the uproar over Mineral King's proposed fate has long subsided. Many who once railed against the resort have forgotten the issue. In fact, overall public enthusiasm for protecting America's air, water and other natural resources has fizzled. The focus of the environmental movement has shifted from mass action and mass awareness of Earth Day (1970) to a low-profile pattern of political and legal efforts by underfunded environmental organizations...
This type of relatively quiet resistance has so far headed off construction of the Mineral King resort...
Mineral King has also taken on a symbolic meaning, since it embraces many issues tied to the expanding American search for energy and society's attempts to pillage shrinking wilderness reserves. Not surprisingly, the Mineral King draft EIS--a voluminous tome whose cover pictures the resort's ersatz-Swiss-chalet-style village--tends to ignore larger issues...