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Saturday's San Francisco Times ran a lengthy story on Hetch Hetchy - some of its history and the myriad present day controversies surrounding Hetch...

21 empty campsites at Hetch Hetchy

Oct 10, 2026

It’s outrageous. A quick walk through the campground at Hetch Hetchy last weekend showed no one camping at any of the 21 sites. Zero. Nobody....

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2026 Spring | Cherry Solution follow-up, springtime at Hetch Hetchy, those pesky compendia

2025 Fall | progress in Yosemite, water quality redux, new faces, events in 2026

2025 Spring | legal Basis for Visitor Improvements, Ackerson Restoration, Robel Fessehatzion Art

2024 Fall | water taste test, SFPUC reform needed, 2024 Annual Dinner, Stuart Woolf etc.

2024 Spring | Klamath, Eel & other Dams, Access to Yosemite, Visionaries and more

2023 Fall | RHH petitions NPS to improve access, groundwater banking, balancing use and protection

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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