Restore Hetch Hetchy is pleased to present a new and improved website with a modern ‘responsive’ design so it plays nice with all of your difference devices. We hope you will like it.
The new site will retain the information provided on the old site, with the exception of some of our several hundred blog posts. Let us know if there’s something missing that you’d like to see. You’ll also notice that blog posts will have a slightly different look as they are linked to the website. Special thanks to Daniel McKenzie for his excellent work on our new website.
The new site will include feature video features as well as opportunities for supporters to engage. We are starting by asking for feedback on what restoration should look like. In 2021, we will be asking supporters to help us engage in the political arena.
How you would like to see the valley restored?
- Should there be roads or only trails?
- Where should camping and lodging be allowed? In the restored valley? In adjacent areas?
- What do we do with the O’Shaughnessy Dam?
- And should San Francisco be compensated, to make restoration more palatable, or has the city already received plenty of benefit over the past century?
Restore Hetch Hetchy will be active in coming months. We have two reports in the works. One, tentatively titled “The Second Taking of Hetch Hetchy”, is about how San Francisco and the National Park Service have limited public access to Hetch Hetchy – directly contravening promises made to and expected by Congress when it gave San Francisco permission to dam and flood the valley. The second will be an update on water system improvements available to San Francisco as a result of improved technology and California’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, passed in 2014.
We will be reaching out to both elected officials (after the election) and to the general public. We will be making directed efforts to find young people, who may not know the story of Hetch Hetchy but don’t believe we need to live with mistakes of the past.
We are asking all supporters to tell their friends and family about the opportunity at hand. Together we can restore Hetch Hetchy Valley, make Yosemite whole again and do something very special for our children and grandchildren. It’s an opportunity like none other.
Please help spread the word.