We don't let our hair grow long and shaggy,

Like the hippies out in San Francisco do..

Merle Haggard, "Okie from Muskogee"

In late January, we asked Probolsky Research to add a question to one of its surveys of likely voters in California. The questions was posed as follows:

Power to the people - and to a few corporations

"I have always called it the Tuolumne Yosemite, for it is a wonderfully exact counterpart of the great Yosemite, not only in its crystal river and sublime rocks and waterfalls, but in the gardens, groves, and meadows of its flower park-like floor.” 

― John Muir, "The Yosemite"

"Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth

doing as simply messing about in boats.” 

― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows.

All water diverters expected to help restore salmon, Phase 1 includes San Francisco

San Francisco is responsible for diverting less than 1% of Bay-Delta Inflow, but 100% responsible for flooding Hetch Hetchy Valley

President George H.W. Bush: acid rain and California water

economics and the environment

Reviewing “Water from the Wilderness: Hetch Hetchy to San Francisco Bay”

"a profanation on the face of it - to go into a national park and dam up one of its most beautiful features"