Dawn at Mineral King Valley

The story behind the historic Mineral King Valley case, which reveals how the Sierra Club battled 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 were not actively enforcing environmental protection laws in the courts. 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 environmental 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 surprising story of how the US 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, Disne