Hetch Hetchy Valley Controversy
Hetch Hetchy Environmental Debates - National Archives
Between 1908 and 1913, Congress debated whether to make a water resource available or preserve a wilderness when the growing city of San Francisco, California ...
Controversy - Hetch Hetchy - Weber State University
The idea of building a dam in the Hetch-Hetchy Valley sparked a nationwide controversy over what should and should not be allowed within our national parks.
The glacial Hetch Hetchy Valley lies in the northwestern part of Yosemite National Park and is drained by the Tuolumne River. For thousands of years before the ...
The Great Hetch Hetchy Debate - Bay Area Monitor
In 2015, Restore Hetch Hetchy filed a lawsuit against the City and County of San Francisco, seeking a ruling that Hetch Hetchy Reservoir violated California law ...
100 years of controversy over Hetch Hetchy Reservoir - YouTube
California's famous Hetch Hetchy Reservoir is turning 100 this month and it's been controversial since it first opened back in 1923.
History of the valley - Restore Hetch Hetchy
Hetch Hetchy was once a resplendent glacier carved valley, with towering cliffs and waterfalls cascading onto a serene valley floor.
Hetch Hetchy: Congress and the Environment | National Archives
From 1908-1913, Congress debated legislation to supply the city of San Francisco with water by damming the Hetch Hetchy Valley.
HETCH HETCHY: The Epic Enviro Battle That Changed America
The battle over Hetch Hetchy was a fight to determine whether a beautiful valley would remain in its natural state or service the growing city of San ...
The Fight for Hetch Hetchy | Environment & Society Portal
About a year later John Muir passed away. After the dam was completed in 1923, waters flooded the valley, destroying Muir's environmental muse. The flooding of ...
John Muir Contests the Hetch-Hetchy Dam - History Matters
Hetch Hetchy Valley, far from being a plain, common, rock-bound meadow, as many who have not seen it seem to suppose, is a grand landscape garden, one of ...
The Conservation Movement at a Crossroads: The Hetch Hetchy ...
The debate over damming the Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park marked a crossroads in the American conservation movement.
The Hetch Hetchy Timeline - John Muir National Historic Site (U.S. ...
The Call claimed the information in these packets was false and that the Society was against the city of San Francisco. February 18, 1910 – The ...
Yosemite's Hetch Hetchy Water Wars
The O'Shaughnessy Dam was completed in 1918 and the valley was completely flooded by 1923. Three years after the Raker Act was passed, President ...
Environmental Case Study: Hetch Hetchy Valley | DocsTeach
The Hetch Hetchy Valley was within Yosemite National Park and protected by the Federal Government, leaving it up to Congress to decide the valley's fate.
Today Hetch Hetchy Valley lies buried under water behind the O'Shaughnessy Dam. ... By a large measure, damming and flooding Hetch Hetchy is the most significant ...
Why SF's Hetch Hetchy Reservoir was both miracle and curse
One hundred years after Hetch Hetchy Reservoir was filled, it remains a miracle and a controversy, connected to two men — John Muir and Michael ...
How a Dam Paved the Way for the National Park Service
This controversy was a multi-year debate that saw the public divided over whether to build a dam in the Hetch Hetchy valley to create a water supply for San ...
Hetch Hetchy Valley Controversy - (California History) - Fiveable
The Hetch Hetchy Valley Controversy was a significant environmental debate in the early 20th century centered around the decision to dam Hetch Hetchy Valley ...
How San Francisco Stole Hetch Hetchy - YouTube
some Hetch Hetchy fishing, there's no denying the scenic beauty of the Valley's reservoir ... Hetch Hetchy Dam is fraught with controversy ...
Should Hetch Hetchy Reservoir be Removed and the Valley ... - Reddit
Amazing that in the 80s the Regan administration proposed draining Hetch Hetchy and Diane Feinstein led the changed to keep it a reservoir.