We can, and should, restore the magnificence of the Hetch ... Hetchy was dammed. The beauty of Yosemite was made famous the world over by early 20th- century artists and writers such as Albert ...

A congressional act 100 years ago created a California dam that still courts controversy John Muir and his Sierra Club fought in vain to preserve Hetch ... painter Albert Bierstadt that depicts ...

ANYONE WHO PROPOSED damming and inundating Hetch Hetchy Valley today would be run out of the state before you could say “John Muir.” But a century ago, the great naturalist fought in vain to ...

One hundred years ago this month, President Woodrow Wilson signed the Raker Act, which allowed San Francisco to build a dam in Yosemite National Park and convert the spectacular Hetch Hetchy ...

Thursday marks the centennial of a decision that allowed the destruction of one of America’s wilderness treasures: Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park. On Dec. 19, 1913, President ...