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Inspiration abounds in Yosemite
Friends, I had a chance to spend 5 really wonderful days in Yosemite – Yosemite Valley, not Hetch Hetchy, at the beginning of June. In between...
Notecards with Art by Lesley Goren
As featured in our Spring 2023 Newsletter, a new set of Hetch Hetchy notecards with art by Lesley Goren is available. The art is an expansion on the...
Thoughts on San Francisco Chronicle re: Hetch Hetchy’s next 100 years
Restore Hetch Hetchy usually appreciates media coverage. Sometimes it is in our favor, as was Tom Philp's Pulitzer Prize winning series for the...
Highway 120 damage, Finding Hetch Hetchy in Palo Alto & Alex Honnold Podcast
Inside Yosemite National Park, Highway 120 has a crack that is about 200 feet long and up to four feet deep. The road surface has moved two to three...
Yosemite reopens – stunning video of Wapama Falls
The worst fears of flooding last week in Yosemite were unrealized (for now) and the park has reopened. The Merced River (measured at the Happy Isles...
Spring 2023 Newsletter – Waterfalls, Groundwater, and More…
Our Spring 2023 newsletter has begun arriving in mailboxes! Read it online here. If you'd like to sign up to receive a hard copy, please send your...
Libelous Journalism to dam Hetch Hetchy
Just a touch of history. Sadly, sometimes telling lies pays off. The San Francisco Examiner, and its Publisher William Randolph Hearst, were among...
Almonds: the good and the inexcusable
Almonds are nutritious and yummy. To meet demand, locally and around the world, California farmers have covered some 1,600,000 acres in almond trees...
Tulare Lake: Reborn amid destruction and controversy
Imagine the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi River, between Fresno and Bakersfield but along the west side of the Central Valley. At...
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