By Matt Weiser — Bee Staff Writer
Published 2:15 am PDT Friday, July 15, 2005
A new alliance of seven American Indian tribes on Thursday demanded a role in restoring Hetch Hetchy Valley, an idea under study by a team of state officials.
Calling themselves the Tribal Forum of Indigenous Peoples, the group formed in April in response [...]
By Matt Weiser — Bee Staff Writer
Published 11:31 am PDT Thursday, July 14, 2005
A workshop in Sacramento Thursday on prospects for restoring the Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park ignited passions on both sides of the debate.
The valley was dammed in 1923 as a water supply for San Francisco. A series of Pulitzer Prize-winning [...]
Paul McHugh, Chronicle Outdoors Writer
Sunday, July 10, 2005
A “Restore Hetch Hetchy” movement seeks to dismantle San Francisco’s O’Shaughnessy Dam and drain the reservoir it created north of Yosemite Valley.
“Let the great granite walls and booming waterfalls speak for themselves, ” Restore’s director, Ron Good, wrote in a recent newsletter. But those walls and waterfalls do [...]