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The draft EIS was showered with criticism during the legally required three-month period for public comment. Although the Forest Service claims that 56 percent of the responses favored development; California's sharp rejection of the EIS reflects the views of many that the Mineral King impact statement was far...
First, a suit filed by the Sierra Club forced the Forest Service to comply with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), a crucial, recently passed environmental law. The court victory delayed action on Mineral King for several years; the Forest Service took until December 1974 to publish the draft environmental...
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...
One such question: should the federal government encourage resorts that use up huge amounts of energy and spoil remaining forest and park lands? In its EIS, the Forest Service claimed that failure to develop Mineral King could leave as much as one-third of the 1985-86 Southern California skier...
The Mineral King resort would also sacrifice scarce wilderness for the benefit of the affluent. According to the Sierra Club a week for two in Mineral King would cost about $600, while the same trip to a major ski resort in Utah, including air fare from Los Angeles, would cost...