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Hugh Morton:

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.”

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Hugh Morton:

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  1. Hugh Morton: Conservationist and Capitalist? Hugh Morton and Bear

  2. 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.” - Hugh Morton in Asheville Citizen-Times article: State is Holding Title to Middle Right-Of-Way Across Grandfather Mountain Scenic View of the Peaks of Grandfather Mountain

  3. 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

  4. Defender of the Mountain? (Whisnant 315) (Whisnant 307)

  5. “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 Capitalist? Grandfather Mountain Advertisement

  6. Exploiting the Mountain? “Grandfather Mountain has been badly mauled and manhandled by the Linville company” - Samuel T. Kelsey as cited in Whisnant 281 Timber Cutting by Linville Lumber

  7. Marketing Mildred? 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

  8. The Land Exchange

  9. Is Conservationismcompatiblewith Capitalism? Admission Sign to Grandfather Mountain

  10. ** All materials without parenthetical citations have been linked to their original source through their caption** Works Cited 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.

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