Hutchings and the Conservation Movement

John Mure, the father of conservation was hired by hutchings to run his sawmill. Hutchings had been denied an exemption from a congressional bill that would have allowed him to build on public land. His daughter floy grew up to be one of yosemite's most famous tomboys and loved roughing it in the woods. In 1868 he filed another lawsuit against california but lost this time too. The united states supreme court agreed to hear his case which eventually led to mure being awarded $1 million damages for loss of property rights.