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The Exchange 08.31.23: Living and Learning in the Loess Hills with Brian Hazlett and Ryan Allen; How Walt Disney failed to create a ski resort in Sequoia National Park

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On Common Ground: Living and Learning in the Loess Hills, Editors Ryan Allen and Brian T. Hazlett
On Common Ground: Living and Learning in the Loess Hills, Editors Ryan Allen and Brian T. Hazlett

Last week on The Exchange, we talked with Sioux City's Brian Hazlett and Ryan Allen about their new book, On Common Ground: Living and Learning in The Loess Hills. The Briar Cliff University educators and several writers and artists share their love of the Loess Hills and their experience their experiences in the Loess Hills.

Also we talk with authors Greg Glasgow and Kathryn Mayer about their own book about one of the great environmental battles of the the 1960s. Disneyland on the Mountain tells the story of how Walt Disney tried to build a ski resort in Sequoia National Park, but after 20 years of court battles, was stymied by the Sierra Club and other environmental groups.

Disneyland on The Mountain
Disneyland on The Mountain: Walt, the Environmentalists and the Ski Resort that Never Was by Greg Glasgow and Kathryn Mayer

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