Patience is a virtue, or so they say

Yosemite Valley Closed by Warm April Rain

A tale of two storms, and two rivers

rainy season not over yet

Celebrating our Campaign for Restoration

Restore Hetch Hetchy's 2018 Annual Dinner

Our Presidents and Yosemite

including Hetch Hetchy of course

First Time in 60 Years: Spring Run Salmon Spawn in the San Joaquin River   

Our 2018 Annual Dinner is on March 17 - St. Patrick's Day. We will be joined by two very special guests, Lee Stetson and Obi Kaufmann, and we look forward to hearing from both of them. 

Tickets can be purchased online at Eventbrite (fee required), by downloading this form and sending it to us, or by simply calling our office at 510-893-3400. 

Commercialization or Just a Cup of Coffee?

Do we want brand names in OUR national parks? 

Would they diminish what makes OUR parks unique and special?

The nationwide outcry over the 1913 Raker Act led directly to the passage of the National Park Service (Organic) Act three years later - an act intending to ensure national parks were managed for national, not local, benefit. The Organic Act discouraged but did not explicitly ban building dams in national parks, and attempts to build dams in Yellowstone in the 1930's were stopped.