Published September 29, 2004
Try having a conversation with someone who’s hyperventilating. It’s not easy.
Take the San Francisco Bay Area leaders. They are having a hard time swallowing how some legitimate questions arise from a water plan they crafted. One question, underscored Monday by an Environmental Defense study, is whether they need to keep a [...]
By Herbert A. Sample — Bee San Francisco Bureau
Published 2:15 am PDT Tuesday, September 28, 2004
OAKLAND – Hoping to jump-start the necessary social, political and legal forces, a veteran environmental group on Monday unveiled a months-long study supporting the feasibility of restoring Yosemite National Park’s Hetch Hetchy Valley by demolishing an 80-year-old dam.
While acknowledging [...]
Published September 19, 2004
The last time the Hetch Hetchy Valley emerged from 300 feet of Sierra water was during the severe drought of 1991.
To quench the Bay Area’s thirst, San Francisco water officials sucked the reservoir almost dry. For a brief time they uncovered the glacial valley that had inspired paintings and prose a [...]
Published September 7, 2004
What can you get for less than $85 in Yosemite National Park?
If you’re a member of the public, $84.70 will buy you and your family a night in one of the park’s tent cabins in Yosemite Valley. If that sounds like a bargain, wait until you hear about the deal San [...]
By Art Jensen — Special To The Bee
Published September 7, 2004
The Bay Area Water Supply and Conservation Agency (BAWSCA), created in 2003 by 28 cities, water districts and water companies, and the 1.7 million water users it represents are very interested in the discussions taking place about the proposal to drain Hetch Hetchy reservoir.
The [...]
Published September 5, 2004
Naturalist, author and activist John Muir introduced Yosemite to the outside world more than a century agothrough his exquisite writings. He championed the creation of the national park. And when San Francisco proposed to dam one of Yosemite’s two deep glacial valleys – the Hetch Hetchy Valley on the Tuolumne River – [...]