ABSTRACT
In 1972 one of the world's oldest conservation societies, the Sierra Club, took out a legal action against Rogers Morton, the United States Secretary of the Interior, in order to prevent the United States Forest Service from permitting Walt Disney to build a theme park in Mineral King Valley, part of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, a region which the Club was originally established to preserve from economic development. The lower courts challenged the standing of the Sierra Club in relation to the disputed land; and in consequence Professor Christopher Stone published an article in the Southern California Law Review in defence of the Sierra Club's legal status.1
