The Hetch Hetchy 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 ...
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 ...
In 1923, the O'Shaughnessy Dam was completed on the Tuolumne River, flooding the entire valley under the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir. The dam and reservoir are the ...
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
Preservationist and Sierra Club founder John Muir did not testify before Congress, but he argued against the Hetch Hetchy plan in this excerpt from his 1912 ...
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
First, the beauty of the valley which they felt should not be sacrificed to build a dam. Second, the sanctity of the national parks which they believed should ...
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 ...
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 Hetch Hetchy Timeline - John Muir National Historic Site (U.S. ...
The fate of the Hetch Hetchy Valley was eventually sealed in 1913, John Muir and the preservationist's efforts to save his mountain temple sparked the first ...
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, ...
The O'Shaughnessy Dam i s 300 feet tall – only medium-sized by today's standards. But it has flooded nine miles of a glacier-carved valley and blocks access to ...
How San Francisco Stole Hetch Hetchy - YouTube
... the Hetch Hetchy Dam is fraught with controversy, shady dealings, and broken promises. And it destroyed a pristine glacial valley in one of ...
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 ...
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 ...
History of the valley - Restore Hetch Hetchy
Building a dam in Yosemite was allowed at a time when our national parks were relatively new. Even so, the proposal generated unprecedented controversy.
Hetch Hetchy: Pros and Cons of Restoration - Yosemite Tales
Prinstine – Hetch Hetchy Reservoir collects and stores pristine snowmelt and precipitation from the protected Yosemite National Park wilderness ...
Giving a Dam: Congress Debates Hetch Hetchy - History Matters
Let it be established that these great parks and forests are to be held at the whim or advantage of local interests and sooner or later they must all be given ...
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 ...
Hetch Hetchy
ValleyHetch Hetchy is a valley, reservoir, and water system in California in the United States. The glacial Hetch Hetchy Valley lies in the northwestern part of Yosemite National Park and is drained by the Tuolumne River.