Reports
- Restore Hetch Hetchy, Response to the State of California Hetch Hetchy Restoration Study. (July 19, 2006)
- California State Assembly, Hetch Hetchy Informational Hearing (Windows Media) (October 10, 2006)
- California Resources Agency - Hetch Hetchy Restoration Study. (2006)
- Restore Hetch Hetchy , Finding the Way Back to Hetch Hetchy Valley: A Vision of Steps to Restore Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park and to Replace Water and Energy Supplies (September 13, 2005)
- Press Release Summarizing the Report: - PDF
- Executive Summary (1.3 MB Download - PDF - Executive Summary)
- Full Report (Caution! Large File! - 18.MB - Download - PDF)
- Environmental Defense, Paradise Regained: Solutions for Restoring Yosemite's Hetch Hetchy Valley (2004)
- University of California, Davis, Re-Assembling Hetch Hetchy: Water Supply Implications of Removing O'Shaughnessy Dam (2003) (Masters Thesis) (Off-site link) (PDF) (1.3 MB)
- University of California, Davis, Statewide Economic-Engineering Water Model - CALVIN.
- National Park Service, Alternatives For Restoration Of Hetch Hetchy Valley Following Removal Of The Dam And Reservoir (1988) (PDF) (48 K), 18 pp.
- U.S. Bureau 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.
Links
Restore Hetch Hetchy is a Proud Member of:
- California Wilderness Coalition
- Planning and Conservation League
- Highway 120 Chamber of Commerce
- Tuolumne County Visitors Bureau
- Tuolumne County Chamber of Commerce
- River Network
- Sierra Nevada Alliance
- Federation of Western Outdoor Clubs
Other Sites Advocating Restoration of Hetch Hetchy
- Sierra Club - Hetch Hetchy
- Environmental Defense
- Restore Hetch Hetchy Group on Facebook.com
- Paradise Lost!
- Hetch Hetchy Satellite Map and Links
- Backcountry Pictures
- Resurrection of the Dammed
Education Tools
- John Muir Papers
- Synergia Learning Ventures - Hetch Hetchy Project
- Should Hetch Hetchy be Dammed? - Library of Congress Lesson Plan
- Designing the Wilderness: The Hetch Hetchy Reservoir
- Should Roosevelt & Wilson Have Stopped Daming Hetch Hetchy?
- John Muir Mountain Day Camp
In the News
- Water: Bring Back Hetch Hetchy?, Sacramento Bee - April 21, 2002
- Quest to Restore Hetch Hetchy as Scenic Valley, San Francisco Examiner, October 13, 2000.
Government Resources
- San Francisco Public Utilities Commission PUC Reliability Study of Hetch Hetchy System
- 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
- U.S. Department of Reclamation, Hetch Hetchy: Water and Power Replacement Concepts.
- Executive Summary
- Full Report
- Appendix
- 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
- Let everyone help to save the famous Hetch-Hetchy Valley and stop the commercial destruction which threatens our national parks: A brief statement of the Hetch-Hetchy case to date by John Muir - 1909 publication
- Text of the Raker Act - (downloadable tiff files)
- 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
- Water Supply Pages Featuring Hetch Hetchy
- History and Text of The Raker Act
- 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.