Newsletters

2023 Spring | Yosemite’s Best Kept Secret, Waterfalls in 2023, Groundwater Recharge, Kim Stanley Robinson

2022 Spring | Keeping Promises Update, Finding Hetch Hetchy Premiere, Bay-Delta Plan, Inclusive Signage, Visiting Hetch Hetchy

2021 Fall | Strategic Planning, Black Oaks, Your Vision of Restoration, New Faces at Restore Hetch Hetchy

2021 Summer | Keeping Promises, Rock Stars in an Upcoming Film and more

2020 Fall | Your Vision of Restoration, Hetch Hetchy Loop Road etc.

2019 Fall | Hetch Hetchy and the Media, Exploring Hetch Hetchy by Boat, Creating a better Yosemite

2019 Spring | Survey results support restoration, broken promises at Hetch Hetchy, Value of a Valley report, reflections on 2019 Annual Dinner

2018 Fall | Legal rulings & next steps, new board members, Department of Interior, Bay-Delta Plan, outreach in Yosemite and holiday shopping

2018 Spring | Appellate Court hearing set for May 30, release of Bill Kirchen’s “Hooray for Hetch Hetchy”, “Walk the Valley” campaign

2017 Fall | 3 page Restoration Panorama, Dams and Your National Parks, Remembering Margaret and Roger Harmon, San Francisco’s Groundwater Improvements

2017 Spring | Descriptions of some wonderful and very welcome amicus briefs filed in support of our legal case file by the State Water Resources Control Board, former statewide officials and Yosemite Superintendents, law professors and the Earth Island Institute

2016 Fall | Legal Update, Upstream and Downstream on the Tuolumne, 2017 Annual Dinner, book reviews, Doug Harnsberger profile, Hetch Hetchy is worth more as a valley than as a reservoir

2016 Spring | Court ruling, Klamath, Annual Dinner, Hetch Hetchy and the creation of the National Park Service, Kathy Schrenk profile

2015 Fall | Litigation Victory, $120,000 Board match, Hans Florine, Pete Van Kuran Profile

2015 Summer | Restore Hetch Hetchy goes to court, Annual Dinner recap, Martha Davis speech, Virginia Stock Johanessen profile

2014 Fall | Yosemite’s 150th birthday, California’s drought, Lance Olson profile, Muir’s ride, legal activities

2014 Spring | Yosemite’s 150th and Abraham Lincoln, Drought and Fire, Film reviews, Other cities have stepped up, Roger Williams profile

2012 Summer | Signatures collected for San Francisco ballot

2004 Spring | Tuolumne Me-Wuk Tribal Council Supports Hetch Hetchy Restoration

2003 Fall | Restore Hetch Hetchy Produces New Documentary Film

2003 Summer | Restore Hetch Hetchy Objects to O’Shaughnessy Dam Modification Project in Hetch Hetchy Valley

2002 Fall | Live on Stage – One Night Only

2002 Summer | Hetch Hetchy Valley, Paradise Lost… to be Found Again!

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Our flagship blog features analysis of news from our staff and announcements of upcoming events.

California Legislators: Yosemite belongs to no one and to everyone

Sep 3, 2026

61 California legislators, led by Greg Wallis (Riverside) have sent a letter to Secretary of Interior Doug Burgum opposing the proposed Yosemite...

Hetch Hetchy, Glen Canyon and the Colorado River

Aug 22, 2026

Hetch Hetchy and Glen Canyon are often cited as the most controversial dams in the United States. In both cases, wild landscapes were sacrificed...

Fishing, Crowds and a San Francisco Debate:

Aug 2, 2026

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