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Hugh Morton:. Conservationist and Capitalist?. Hugh Morton and Bear. Conservationist?. “The right-of-way thus provided... will produce what is probably the most scenic section of the Parkway, but without interrupting the spectacular wilderness characteristics.” - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Hugh Morton:Conservationist and Capitalist?
Hugh Morton and Bear
Scenic View of the Peaks of Grandfather Mountain
“The right-of-way thus provided... will
produce what is probably the most
scenic section of the Parkway, but without
interrupting the spectacular wilderness
characteristics.”- Hugh Morton in Asheville Citizen-
Times article: State is Holding Title to Middle Right-Of-Way Across Grandfather Mountain
Conservationist?
Saving the Scenery?
“The Lord put it there and it would be like taking a blade to the
Mona Lisa if you gash it up.”
Hugh Morton in National Park Service, Hearing Blue Ridge
Parkway Grandfather Mountain Vicinity
Blue Ridge Parkway Viaduct
Defender of the Mountain?
(Whisnant 315) (Whisnant 307)
Capitalist?
“By the time the Parkway routing question was finally
resolved in 1968, the mountain that Morton ever afterward insisted ‘didn’t
deserve to be conquered’ by the NPS had been partially timbered and paved, crowned with a swinging bridge and
several decidedly nonnatural structures, and
swarmed with visitors.” - Whisnant 289 Grandfather Mountain Advertiseme
nt
Timber Cutting by Linville Lumber
“Grandfather Mountain has been badly mauled and
manhandled by the Linville company”
- Samuel T. Kelsey as cited in Whisnant 281
Exploiting the Mountain?
Grandfather Mountain Bears
Twinned with the ubiquitous swinging bridge was the
mountain’s new mascot, a black bear named Mildred, who arrived from Zoo Atlanta in 1966, at once
evoking the (now safely captured) wilderness of the
“unconquered” mountain and the warm fuzziness of
sentimentalized, marketable nature.
- Whisnant 289
Marketing Mildred?
The Land Exchange
Is Conservationismcompatible
with Capitalism?
Admission Sign to Grandfather Mountain
Works Cited** All materials without parenthetical citations have been linked to their
original source through their caption**
National Park Service. Hearing Blue Ridge Parkway Grandfather Mountain Vicinity. Lands Files, Blue Ridge Parkway Headquarters, Asheville, NC, 1961. Print.
Whisnant, Anne. Super-Scenic Motorway: A Blue Ridge Parkway History. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Press, 2006. Print.