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Hetch Hetchy and Recreation at Large Reservoirs in California
58 out of 60 large reservoirs in California allow both fishing and boating. Only Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in Yosemite National Park and Lake Matthews...
Access to Hetch Hetchy – Please tell the Park Service
Friends: We are repeating our request from September 1 to tell the National Park Service to consider Hetch Hetchy carefully as it considers a...
Yosemite Access Plan Threatens Hetch Hetchy – Please Weigh in by September 30
The National Park Service has proposed an ongoing reservation system for Yosemite as described in its Visitor Access Management Draft Plan and EA...
WATER: Bring Back Hetch Hetchy? (Sacramento Bee from 2001)
We're excited to be reuniting with Pulitzer Prize winner Tom Philp when he joins us at our Annual Dinner on October 26 in Lafayette. On April 21,...
Boating and fishing at Hetch Hetchy – at the discretion of the National Park Service?
The newly released "Superintendent's Compendium" for Yosemite National Park still prohibits boating and fishing at Hetch Hetchy Reservoir. But the...
Debunking “Hetch Hetchy” water
Is the quality of San Francisco’s water as good as some claim? The simple answer is no. Some people cannot distinguish it from other Bay Area...
More popular than ever …
Due to the reservations system affecting other entrances to Yosemite National Park, as well as extended access hours and increased publicity, Hetch...
San Francisco’s Unfortunate Isolationism
The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission is continuing its history of doing its own thing by declining to cooperate with others even when there...
Keeping Promises Update and Summary
Keeping Promises Update and Summary Note: This blog post is a bit thick with detail, chronicling a record of Restore Hetch Hetchy's written...
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