Hetch Hetchy is expendable, new tool finds By Tom Philp — Bee Associate Editor Published August 29, 2004 Can a computer see things that conventional wisdom overlooks? A University of California, Davis, graduate student named Sarah Null took a new computer model that analyzes water management and asked the computer a century-old question: Does San [...]
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Published August 29, 2004 Seventeen years ago, Interior Department Secretary Donald Hodel had a provocative idea for Hetch Hetchy, Yosemite Valley’s smaller twin: Dismantle the dam that has kept the valley underwater since 1923, thus restoring the granite peaks and signature waterfalls to the national park system and the American public. President Reagan’s appointee met [...]
