A century-old fight over a dam in Yosemite National Park is headed to a California appeals court on May 30. The campaign to restore the once lush Hetch Hetchy Valley is among the country’s oldest ...
Early 20th century visitors to Hetch Hetchy Valley, a few miles north of Yosemite Valley, saw a rich meadowland and green oak groves, with the clear Tuolumne River winding through them, embraced by ...
YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (KFSN) -- The Hetch Hetchy Valley is located in the northwest corner of Yosemite National Park. It's filled with water held back by O'Shaughnessy Dam. Under the ...
YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (KFSN) -- Sometimes, taking the road less traveled can lead to the greatest reward. Spreck Rosekrans would tell you that's the case with Hetch Hetchy, the only area in ...
It would cost anywhere from $3 billion to $10 billion to fulfill one of California environmentalists' fondest dreams -- draining Hetch Hetchy Reservoir and restoring a valley in Yosemite National Park ...
August marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the National Park Service. Writer Wallace Stegner once described our national parks as “America’s best idea.” If our national parks are our best ...
Two years after losing in court and six years after being rejected by voters, a Berkeley environmental group is continuing its long-running battle to drain Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, a linchpin of the ...
Like my fellow environmentalists, I emotionally support the removal of O’Shaughnessy Dam and other waterworks. But I am practically committed to the status quo. We are a rapidly growing state, and in ...
In Yosemite National Park, 143 miles from San Francisco, the waters of the Tuolumne River are dammed in the big blue lake called Hetch Hetchy. Without Hetch Hetchy, San Franciscans would sometimes ...