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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...
Restoring Hetch Hetchy – Old School “Environmentalism”
In The Battle over Hetch Hetchy: America's Most Controversial Dam and the Birth of Modern Environmentalism (2005), Historian Robert Righter recounts...
San Diego and the Water Business – mostly good
San Diego has an excess of water. So it is selling some of its supply to Las Vegas and Arizona. See the Wall Street Journal story "San Diego now has...
California snowpack in 2026 – low, but not terrible
Wednesday's headline in the The San Francisco Chronicle "California in for ‘ugly summer’ amid one of the worst snowpacks on record" was an attention...
San Francisco doesn’t need Hetch Hetchy now. But what about later?
Our most recent report, The Cherry Solution, demonstrates that San Francisco does not need Hetch Hetchy Reservoir for its water supply. With the...
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