Scope and Content This subseries consists of five folders of correspondence kept by Dr. and Mrs. Koch-- mainly with government officials, environmental grouups such as the National Wildlife Federation, and the press. Most of the letters are pleas to understand the plight of the Mineral King valley during the years in which Disney Productions was attempting to obtain the land to build a resort. There is much corrspondence between Mrs. Koch and the National Wildlife Federation concerning the latter's stance...

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This subseries is comprised of three folders of photocopies of letters from many individuals as well as corporate and government entities. Represented in this series are letters detailing the controversy over the development of Mineral King from the Sierra Club, Walt Disney Productions, the U.S. Senate, the Los Angeles Times, the U.S. Forest Service, etc.

Scope and Content The one folder in this subseries contains several related items of memoranda including:"Memorandum of Understanding U.S. Forest Service, R-5; California Fish and Game Commission; California Department of Fish and Game, and National Park Service"--regarding the need to control the deer and bear populations in the Sequoia National Game Refuge (1965-1966),Memorandum from Michael McCloskey (Conservation director of the Sierra Club) to the "Director" of the National Park...

Scope and Content The two folders in this subseries contain magazines and articles from magazines regarding the Mineral King controversy. Complete magazines include the March 1972 issue of Harper's Magazine, the January 1967 issue of Western Ski Time, and two issues of The Sierra Club Bulletin (October 1973 and March 1974). Articles and photocopies of articles come from The...

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One folder comprises this subseries, with two slightly different copies of a leaflet called "Mineral King: The Place, the Issue, the Challenge" and two copies of a booklet called Mineral King Guide by Pat Adler. The two copies of the booklet are dated 1963 and 1975 (revised).

Scope and Content This subseries contains two folders of typed, handwritten, and photocopied speeches, transcripts, and various editorials from entities such as the Sierra Club, KABC TV, Jean Koch (for the Mineral King Task Force), The Mineral King District Association, Walt Disney Productions, and Congressman Jerome R. Waldie (supporting a march on Disneyland in 1973). There is also a letter/petition from a Fred M. Wilkins to Fred Eissler (Sierra Club director from 1963 to 1969) imploring him to do whatever...

Scope and Content These two folders contain articles and comments regarding the March 1975 draft of an enviromental impact statement on the proposed Mineral King development. All comments are addressed to Douglas R. Leisz, Regional Forester [San Francisco] since it was the U.S. Forest Service which published the Draft Environmental Statement. There are several copies of the comments of Michael R. Asay, an economist at the University of Southern California, as well as letters from Claire T. Dedrick...

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This small subseries includes two newspaper clippings mentioning Jean Koch--one of them unrelated to the Mineral King controversy-- and two photocopies of newspaper articles from the Visalia Times-Delta (1969 and 1975) regarding Mineral King, Silver City, and the Disney project.

Scope and Content The first folder in this subseries contains what appears to be the typed draft of a book-length manuscript on Mineral King, though the author is not stated anywhere in the draft. The material provides useful background information on the cultural and physical history of Mineral King as well as details of the Disney project controversy and litigation.The second folder contains flyers and other typed and printed information on Mineral King, including the controversy over the...

Scope and Content This bound volume is comprised of a series of reports and articles compiled by ten Environmental Studies students from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1973. In the Introduction to the volume, they are referred to as the Mineral King Study Group. This group, under the guidance of Penelope N. Campbell and Dr. Orrin Sage, conducted a six-month study to determine the optimum use of the Mineral King area by exploring the surrounding controversy. The manuscripts include a...