Ken Garcia Friday, August 5, 2005 I HATE TO throw a wet blanket on the hopes of all those who want to restore Yosemite’s Hetch Hetchy Valley by tearing down the dam that stores water for 2.4 million Bay Area residents, but reality suggests I must. The state’s top water experts are currently going through [...]
Glen Martin, Chronicle Environment Writer Monday, June 13, 2005 The debate over the proposal to breach the Sierra’s O’Shaughnessy Dam, drain the reservoir behind it and restore Hetch Hetchy Valley to its former natural splendor is apt to intensify this summer with the release of a California Department of Water Resources study on the issue. [...]
4/13/05 By Larry Weitzman, staff writer As a result of a series of columns on the reclaiming of the Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park, an editorial writer for the Sacramento Bee, Tom Philp, has won a Pulitzer Prize. Located on the campus of Columbia University, the Pulitzer prize is a series of honors [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]