Don’t tear down Yosemite’s dam – Drain the reservoir, you’ll get swamps and mosquitoes

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 [...]