LA Times Today: How Disney’s Sierra Nevada ski resort changed environmentalism forever
Watch L.A. Times Today at 7 p.m. on Spectrum News 1 on Channel 1 or live stream on the Spectrum News App. Palos Verdes Peninsula and Orange County viewers can watch on Cox Systems on channel 99. Six decades ago, Walt Disney set his sights on Mineral King, a mountain valley in California’s Sierra Nevada bordering Sequoia National Park. It was the perfect setting for a ski resort, but a lawsuit between the Sierra Club and the U.S. Forest Service put a kibosh on the plan. Emeritus law professor Daniel...