The Debate Over Hetch Hetchy
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 ...
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.
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.
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 Fight for Hetch Hetchy | Environment & Society Portal
The dam in the Hetch Hetchy valley of Yosemite National Park, first proposed in 1908, was intended to create a reservoir that would provide water and ...
HETCH HETCHY: The Epic Enviro Battle That Changed America
Second, the sanctity of the national parks which they believed should not be violated. John Muir knew that without public support the Hetch Hetchy Valley would ...
Environmental Case Study: Hetch Hetchy Valley | DocsTeach
From 1908-1913, Congress debated legislation to supply the city of San Francisco with water by damming the Hetch Hetchy Valley. As it debated this legislation, ...
Controversy - Hetch Hetchy - Weber State University
Muir and the Sierra Club argued the 1901 law only applied to “rights of way, etc. which will not destroy the natural condition of wonders of the park” and ...
John Muir Contests the Hetch-Hetchy Dam - History Matters
The Progressive Era's most controversial environmental issue was the 1908–1913 struggle over federal government approval for building the Hetch Hetchy dam in a ...
The Debate Over Hetch Hetchy - OER Commons
Conservationists like Pinchot believed that Hetch Hetchy should be used as a sustainable fresh water source for the growing City of San Francisco, while ...
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 ...
according to officials of the city of San Francisco.¹ By 1901 the city put in a claim for the valley, and the ensuing struggle between the aesthetic and ...
Giving a Dam: Congress Debates Hetch Hetchy - History Matters
The era's most controversial environmental issue was the five-year struggle over federal approval for the flooding of a remote corner of federally-owned land in ...
The Hetch Hetchy Timeline - John Muir National Historic Site (U.S. ...
December 19, 1913 – President Wilson signs the Raker Act, giving the city of San Francisco full access to building a reservoir in the Hetch ...
Environmental Case Study: Hetch Hetchy Valley | DocsTeach
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, ...
San Francisco and the Hetch Hetchy reservoir. Hearing held before ...
The Hetch Hetchy controversy was a catalytic event for the conservation movement, splitting up the previous mingling of conservationists-for-preservation and ...
How San Francisco Stole Hetch Hetchy - YouTube
Hetch Hetchy Yosemite is one of the most scenic Valleys in all of the National Park System. Whether you're hiking the Hetch Hetchy Loop ...
A Century Later, the Battle for Hetch Hetchy Continues
It was true. The debate over Hetch Hetchy was indeed a national debate, and most of the republic opposed the parochial water interests of the ...
The Battle Over Hetch Hetchy: America's Most Controversial Dam ...
Ultimately, passage of the passage of the Raker Act in 1913 by Congress granted San Francisco the right to flood the Hetch Hetchy Valley. A decade later the O' ...