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Environmentalism's Legacy Some of our greatest monuments are those we never build. And some fit in the palm of our hand.Walt Disney liked colossal projects. In 1960 he started planning for a Disney ski resort in a Swiss Alps-like gem in California called Mineral King. It was in the Sequoia National Forest, home of the world's grandest trees, those thousand-year-old "ambassadors from another time," as John Steinbeck described them. It didn't matter to Disney, who was also considering buying Ellis Island at the time. He wanted his 27 ski lifts. The Sierra Club sued to stop the project.

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Some of our greatest monuments are those we never build. And some fit in the palm of our hand.Walt Disney liked colossal projects. In 1960 he started planning for a Disney ski resort in a Swiss Alps-like gem in California called Mineral King. It was in the Sequoia National Forest, home of the world's grandest trees, those thousand-year-old "ambassadors from another time," as John Steinbeck described them. It didn't matter to Disney, who was also considering buying Ellis Island at the time. He wanted his 27 ski lifts. The Sierra Club sued to stop the project.