# Disney proposes a Mineral King ski resort in Sequoia country, a high-Sierra development fight of his last years

Date: 1965

## The fact

In the mid-1960s [Walt Disney](/people/walt-disney) promoted a large ski resort at Mineral King in the southern Sierra, on Forest Service land beside Sequoia. He did not live to see the legal war of the 1970s. Displacement here is landscape and access, not a city-block clearance. Archival locator: D23 — Disney History at https://d23.com/disney-history/ (D23 / The Walt Disney Company). Independent locator: Britannica — Walt Disney at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Walt-Disney (Encyclopaedia Britannica).

## Context

The Florida Project and Mineral King are parallel last-decade land visions. Later Supreme Court standing doctrine is not 1965. Energy and roads into a valley are mixed neighbourhood, not extra Facts. Archival locator: D23 — Disney History at https://d23.com/disney-history/ (D23 / The Walt Disney Company). Independent locator: Britannica — Walt Disney at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Walt-Disney (Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not treat later Sierra Club v. Morton as his lifetime court act; he died in 1966. Mixed effects of Disney proposes a Mineral King ski resort in Sequoia country, a high-Sierra development fight of his last years are separate paths.

## Evidence and sources

D23 history and Britannica independently place late Disney in park-and-land expansion. Standard conservation histories record the Mineral King proposal as Disney’s. No unique acreage of completed ski runs is claimed, because the resort was not built in his life. Archival locator: D23 — Disney History at https://d23.com/disney-history/ (D23 / The Walt Disney Company). Independent locator: Britannica — Walt Disney at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Walt-Disney (Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Official or archival record: D23 — Disney History (https://d23.com/disney-history/; D23 / The Walt Disney Company).

## Significance

An unbuilt but published mountain resort is still a displacement path as a completed plan (like Plan Voisin in another dossier). Medium confidence on the proposal; the unbuilt end is stored. Later wilderness designation is not his act. Archival locator: D23 — Disney History at https://d23.com/disney-history/ (D23 / The Walt Disney Company). Independent locator: Britannica — Walt Disney at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Walt-Disney (Encyclopaedia Britannica).

The contribution type is direct. The attached driver is [forced-displacement-scale](/drivers/forced-displacement-scale). The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

## What is established and what is not

Established: Disney proposed Mineral King in his last years. Not established: a completed resort, or a unique wildlife-kill table. Conventional 1965. Not 1972 litigation as his deed. Archival locator: D23 — Disney History at https://d23.com/disney-history/ (D23 / The Walt Disney Company). Independent locator: Britannica — Walt Disney at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Walt-Disney (Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Shared responsibility is part of Disney proposes a Mineral King ski resort in Sequoia country, a high-Sierra development fight of his last years. Naming Walt Disney does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1965-01-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

## People

- Walt Disney: https://factrail.ai/people/walt-disney

## Drivers

- Forced-Displacement Scale: https://factrail.ai/drivers/forced-displacement-scale

## Sources

- https://d23.com/disney-history/
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Walt-Disney

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/wd-mineral-king