Restore Hetch Hetchy’s vision – to return to the people Yosemite Valley’s lost twin, Hetch Hetchy – a majestic glacier-carved valley with towering cliffs and waterfalls, an untamed place where river and wildlife run free, a new kind of national park  – is twofold. The first step is to replace the water and power needs of all communities that depend on the Tuolumne River. The second step is to steward the valley for future generations.

We honor those who have included Restore Hetch Hetchy in their wills, trusts or estate plans by including them in our Hetch Hetchy Legacy Circle.

Restore Hetch Hetchy Legacy Circle Members

  • Marilyn Brown

Marilyn Brown loved to hike and loved everything about Yosemite. Marilyn was a strong supporter of the Yosemite Conservancy and especially its campaign to restore the Mariposa Grove. Marilyn, with her husband Allan, was a longtime fixture at Restore Hetch Hetchy events and firmly believed Yosemite National Park is no place for a reservoir.

  • Dorothy Jean Bobbitt

Dorothy visited Hetch Hetchy often in the 1930’s, shortly after the valley was flooded. Along with a few friends, she worked at Camp Mather in its early years and liked to tell stories of entertaining guests around the campfire. Dorothy was also a stalwart support of and longtime volunteer with the Marine Mammal Center at Fort Cronkite.

  • Roger and Margaret Ball Harmon 

Roger and Margaret loved the entire Sierra and were especially committed to restoring Yosemite’s Hetch Hetchy Valley

  • Donald W. Leonard

Don Leonard was an avid outdoorsmen who always looked forward to his next adventure. He and his partner Marvin Edwards were longtime enthusiastic fixtures at Restore Hetch Hetchy events.

  • Martha Mallery

Martha Mallery, a co-founder of Stockton’s Harriet Chalmers Adams Society, celebrated adventurous and independent women. She was an avid birder who loved Yosemite and wanted to see Hetch Hetchy returned to its natural splendor.

  • Herb and Linda McGrew

Herb and Linda McGrew loved country life, leaving Manhattan and settling in Napa in 1970. They were lifelong conservationists and activists who loved tending their prune orchard.

  • Jonas Waxman

Jonas Waxman was a native San Franciscan, who moved to Oakland and served as Principal in a number of public schools. He was a long time supporter of Restore Hetch Hetchy as well as many other environmental and philanthropic causes.

Restore Hetch Hetchy is also grateful to the following individuals who have inspired memorial gifts in their name.

Memorial Gifts
  • John Boles
  • Jerry Cadagan (former board chair of Restore Hetch Hetchy)
  • Warren Cederborg
  • Matthew Cunningham
  • Vincent & Mary Custodio
  • Bob Harper
  • Susan Alison Lesch
  • Christopher David Jarvis
  • Don Pitts
  • Raymond Ribaric
  • Harold Thorne