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Dams, aquifers and parks
Restore Hetch Hetchy is not anti-dam. Dams are essential, especially in places like California where precipitation is seasonal and the threat of...
Friant-Kern Canal – The Good, the Bad and the Ironic
Restoring Hetch Hetchy means being serious about water system improvements for San Francisco, so we pay attention to many of the higher profile...
Happy New Year, and hurray for the rain and snow!
After two very dry years, it's especially nice to enter 2022 with one of the wettest autumns ever. How wet has it really been? It's too soon to be...
Supporting a vision of natural splendor
There will be many benefits to realizing our vision of returning Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park to its original splendor, without the...
E. O. Wilson (1929-2021)
Harvard biologist Edward Osborne Wilson, sometimes described as the "father of biodiversity", passed away yesterday. He will be missed. Wilson was a...
Holiday Help for Hetch Hetchy
Hetch Hetchy, like the rest of Yosemite, is beautiful year-round. At a time when our national parks are more popular than ever, Hetch Hetchy can be...
San Francisco Chronicle: Can a Rock Climber Help Restore Yosemite’s Hetch Hetchy Valley?
The front page of Thursday's San Francisco Chronicle posed a question: "Can a Rock Climber Help Restore Yosemite's Hetch Hetchy Valley?" The clear...
Prisoners of a Century-Old Debate – or Not?
In his Pulitzer Prize winning series, Sacramento Bee editor Tom Philp opined "Californians don't have to be prisoners of a 90-year-old debate....
Fall Newsletter available online
Restore Hetch Hetchy's 2021 Fall Newsletter is available online. If you'd like a hard copy, email admin@hetchhetchy.org and provide your name and...
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