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Fishing, Crowds and a San Francisco Debate:
A few quick updates: Fishing at Calaveras Reservoir San Francisco’s Calaveras Reservoir is one of only two reservoirs in California holding over...
Public Lands and the Law: Tug-of-War in Utah
Yosemite National Park's Hetch Hetchy Valley is perhaps the best known example of a spectacular landscape that was initially protected but...
America’s Sesquicentennial and Yosemite’s Hetch Hetchy
It's hard not to think about public lands and our national parks as we celebrate our nation's sesquicentennial. They are an essential and special...
Spring newsletter, and …
Our Spring Newsletter has been delivered to mailboxes and is posted online. If you have not received a hard copy but would like one - send an email...
Park Service permits fishing in Hetch Hetchy Reservoir!
Last week, the National Park Service announced changes in fishing regulations throughout Yosemite, notably including opening Hetch Hetchy Reservoir...
Survey says … Restore Hetch Hetchy!
We asked Probolsky Research to add a Hetch Hetchy question to a statewide poll conducted in early May - the very same question we asked in 2019. We...
Please sign our petition, and …
Friends: We plan to encourage elected officials to take action over the next several months. As part of our effort to show broad support, we have...
Hetch Hetchy and Yosemite’s Crowds
Visitors flocked to Hetch Hetchy last weekend as they did to all of Yosemite National Park. Long waits at entrance stations and full parking lots...
Mecia’s Picture – A View All Too Rare
It's a stunning shot, and a view rarely seen. Restore Hetch Hetchy board member Mecia Serafino scrambled 1800 vertical feet to the top of Kolana...
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