Spreck Rosekrans, Nancy E. Ryan
Tuesday, November 30, 2004
Sometimes you can have your cake and eat it, too. In this case, we can have Hetch Hetchy Valley and still drink the Tuolumne River’s water. As San Francisco undertakes a major revamping of its water system, the time is right to consider how to provide reliable water [...]
Jim Wunderman
Tuesday, November 30, 2004
On this we can agree: Today, the Hetch Hetchy Valley is one of the most beautiful places on the planet. Nearly 50,000 hikers, campers and visitors spend time there each year. Given the valley’s beauty, it’s understandable that a group of people wants to increase access to Hetch Hetchy Valley. Unfortunately, [...]
Published 2:15 am PST Sunday, November 28, 2004
A beautiful Sierra landscape. A vital California city. An old water right that allowed the city to alter the landscape. A new call to reconsider that decision.
These elements drive the growing discussion about Yosemite National Park, the home of the Hetch Hetchy Valley, a smaller twin of [...]
Glen Martin, Chronicle Environment Writer
Sunday, November 21, 2004
It has been more than 80 years since the Hetch Hetchy Valley disappeared under the waters gathered behind O’Shaughnessy Dam, but its lost High Sierra splendor still resonates with nature lovers. John Muir called Hetch Hetchy the “wonderful exact counterpart” to Yosemite Valley; old photos and narratives bear [...]
Published 2:15 am PST Sunday, November 14, 2004
Yosemite National Park’s Hetch Hetchy Valley is going to get the careful rethinking about its future that it deserves. An idea that not so long ago was far beyond the bounds of political convention – to drain San Francisco’s 81-year-old reservoir in this magnificent valley and store the [...]
By Herbert A. Sample — Bee San Francisco Bureau
Published 2:15 am PST Friday, November 12, 2004
OAKLAND – The Schwarzenegger administration has decided to assess studies of restoring the submerged Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park, an idea that has been fiercely criticized by San Francisco business and government interests.
The governor’s intentions came to [...]
OPINION
From the November 12, 2004 print edition: Loud and clear
Jim Wunderman
It can be tempting to take the Bay Area for granted, to presume that this beautiful urban metropolis, this vibrant and creative economy, and this tolerant and diverse culture was inevitable and preordained. Yet the fact is that the Bay Area of today is built [...]