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Restore Hetch Hetchy is a Proud Member of:
- California Wilderness Coalition
- Planning and Conservation League - Restore Hetch Hetchy is an Associate Board Member
- Highway 120 Chamber of Commerce (Groveland)
- Tuolumne County Visitors Bureau
- Tuolumne County Chamber of Commerce (Sonora)
-
River Network - Helping people understand, protect, and restore rivers and their watersheds
- Sierra Nevada Alliance
- Federation of Western Outdoor Clubs - Promotion of the Proper Use, Enjoyment and Protection of America's Scenic Wilderness and Outdoor Recreation Resources since 1932.
Other Sites Advocating Restoration of Hetch Hetchy
- Sierra Club - Hetch Hetchy - many articles and other features, including historical photos of Hetch Hetchy
- Environmental Defense - Explaining this national group's belief that with today's increased knowledge and more sophisticated infrastructure choices, it is possible to fully meet San Francisco's water and power needs while restoring the Hetch Hetchy Valley to its natural state.
- Restore Hetch Hetchy Group on Facebook.com
- Paradise Lost! - Houston Climbing Club site advocating restoring Hetch Hetchy
- Hetch Hetchy Satellite Map and Links - by Chris Chubb. Pull the Plug and Restore the Valley! Created with Google Earth.
- Backcountry Pictures - View their Discover Hetch Hetchy PSA Video narrated by Harrison Ford (8.1 MB) prepared for Environmental Defense.
Education
- John Muir Papers - University of the Pacific
- Synergia Learning Ventures - Hetch Hetchy Project
- Should Hetch Hetchy be Dammed? - Library of Congress Lesson Plan
- Designing the Wilderness: The Hetch Hetchy Reservoir (Grade 9-12 Lesson Plan from Historic Maps in K-12 Classrooms, sponsored by the Newberry Library
- Should
Roosevelt & Wilson Stopped Daming Hetch Hetchy? You decide!
A "Biography of America" video series web feature - John Muir Mountain Day Camp - A summer day camp for kids 7-12
In the News
- Hetch
Hetchy Informational Hearing (Windows Media)
Watch the complete three-hour October 10, 2006 Hetch Hetchy Informational Hearing held by the California Assembly Standing Committee on Water, Parks & Wildlife, webcast archive by The California Channel. - Water: Bring Back Hetch Hetchy? by Tom Philp, Sacramento Bee - April 21, 2002 (Off-site link)
- Quest to Restore Hetch Hetchy as Scenic Valley by Eric Brazil, San Francisco Examiner, October 13, 2000.
- Letter to the Editor from Ron Good - San Francisco Chronicle - September 10, 2001
- City of San Francisco Public Utilities Commission
- City of San Francisco, PUC Reliability Study of Hetch Hetchy System
Government Resources
- California Resources Agency - Hetch
Hetchy Restoration Study home page.
- National Park Service, Alternatives
For Restoration Of Hetch Hetchy Valley
Following Removal Of The Dam And
Reservoir (1988) (PDF) (48 K), 18 pp.
Evaluates restoration alternatives for recovery, using no management, moderate management, and intensive management.
- U.S. Department of Reclamation, Hetch
Hetchy: Water and Power Replacement Concepts (February, 1988).
Executive Summary (PDF - 683 K), 18 pp.
Full Report (excluding Appendix) (PDF - 2.10 MB), 56 pp.
Appendix. (PDF - 2.3 MB), 43 pp.
Concludes in a preliminary way, with further study required, that, even without the O'Shaugnessy Dam, the Tuolumne River could provide enough water to San Francisco to operate the city's existing conveyence system at full capacity and deliver almost 100,000 acre-feet more than is currently being used. - Hetch
Hetchy Informational Hearing (Windows Media)
Watch the complete three-hour October 10, 2006 Hetch Hetchy Informational Hearing held by the California Assembly Standing Committee on Water, Parks & Wildlife, webcast archive by The California Channel.
History
- John Muir's essay on Hetch Hetchy from his book, The Yosemite
- Library of Congress, American Memories, The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850 - 1920
- The Hetch Hetchy issue from Gifford Pinchot's Viewpoint - from the Grey Towers National Historic Landmark.
- Raker Debate - Curriculum Classroom Exercise
- Museum of the City of San Francisco
- Yosemite National Park, General Management Plan Info on Hetch Hetchy
- Giving a Dam; Congress Debates Hetch Hetchy ("History Matters" Website feature with a partial transcript of the 1913 congressional testimony from Pinchot and Phelan and the debate in Congress)
- United States v. City and County of San Francisco, 310 U.S. 16 (1940) - U.S. Supreme Court decision holding the City of San Francisco is violating the Raker Act by selling electrical power from the Hetch Hetchy dam.
- Notes on Hetch-Hetchy Valley by C. F. Hoffmann (1868).
John Muir
- John Muir Exhibit - Most comprehensive site about John Muir's ife and legacy
- John Muir Network - Launching pad to all things Muir
Photography
- Photo Downloads - high resolution historical photos for use in printed publications from the Sierra Club.
- Hetch Hetchy: Yesterday and Today - Photo and Art Gallery from the Sierra Club
- Chris Valentine's Desktop Wallpaper Wonderland - Computer Desktop Wallpaper of Hetch Hetchy
- Tony Dunn's "Hetch Hetchy - Before and After" Gallery - rollover effects highlight this photographic comparison of Hetch Hetchy before and after the dam was built.
- David Brower's "Wildness Within" Hetch Hetchy Historic Photo Album
- Virtual Guidebook - North Trail Hetch Hetchy - Quicktime Virtual Reality Panoramas
- Virtual Guidebook - O'Shaughnessy Dam - Quicktime Virtual Reality Panoramas
- Discover Hetch Hetchy PSA Video narrated by Harrison Ford (8.1 MB) prepared for Environmental Defense.
Other Dam Removal and River Restoration Links
- California Hydropower Reform Coalition - "To restore and enhance rivers in California through the federal hydropower relicensing process using collaboration, technical and scientific expertise, and the promotion of public involvement."
- California Trout - To protect, preserve, and restore wild trout, native steelhead, and their waters in California nd to provide high quality angling adventures for the public to enjoy.
- Coosa River Times - dedicated to restoring and preserving America's rivers, lakes, streams, oceans, coasts and other water resources.
- Dam and Reservoir Impact and Information Archive
- Friends of the River
- Glen Canyon Institute - To drain Lake Powell
- American Rivers
- Issue Guide: Dam Deconstruction
- Dam De-Construction - What's Next? by Marc Reisner - from High Country News
- River Network - The River Network's mission is to help people organize to protect and restore rivers and watersheds.
- International Rivers Network - A worldwide organization working to halt the construction of destructive river development projects and to promote sound river management options.
- Former Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt on Dams - August 4, 1998 Speech
- America's Evolving View of Dams by Bruce Babbitt in Open Spaces Quarterly
Other Environmental Protection and Appreciation Links
- John Muir Exhibit - Pre-eminent website about John Muir, who is said to have died of a broken heart at the loss of Hetch Hetchy.
- Forest Conservation Links - a reviewed Forest Conservation search space - browse by category, or search the entire content for forest conservation resources on the Internet.
- Eco-Portal - An Information Gateway Empowering the Movement for Environmental Sustainability
- "Earth Talk" Environmental Sustainability Discussion Community
- Great California Environmental Directory
Travel
- Evergreen Lodge - A historic Yosemite hotel nestled in the woods just a few miles from the Hetch Hetchy entrance to Yosemite National Park.
- Y Explore - a socially responsible tour company offering guided photography hikes in Yosemite National Park.
- Extranomical Adventures - Extranomical Adventures offers daily tours from San Francisco to Yosemite National Park and the giant sequoias!
- Yosemite Tours - Yosemite Tours run tours to Yosemite National Park, CA daily from San Francisco.
- Yosemite's Scenic Wonders Vacation Rentals - Rental Homes and Condos located in Yosemite West.
To get involved in the effort to restore Hetch Hetchy, contact Restore Hetch Hetchy at: info@hetchhetchy.org, To get involved in the effort to restore Hetch Hetchy, contact Restore Hetch Hetchy at: info@hetchhetchy.org, P.O. Box 3538, Sonora, CA 95370. Telephone: (209) 533-4481.
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