Download or read book Hetch written by River Savage and published by . This book was released on 2016-05-11 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Save verb1 a. Keep safe or rescue (someone or something) from harm or danger. Synonyms: rescue, come to someone's rescue, save someone's life, set free, liberate, deliver, extricate. Saving lives is the end goal. It's a responsibility I live with every day, the reason I wear the badge. Built on a brotherhood that runs deeper than blood, this way of life has become my very existence... Until Liberty. I thought I was saving her. I never expected her to be the one saving me.

Download or read book The Battle Over Hetch Hetchy written by Robert W. Righter and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-03-17 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

Download or read book Hetch Hetchy written by Kenneth Brower and published by Heyday Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1920's the thirsty city of San Francisco reached deep into Yosemite National Park to build the O'Shaughnessy Dam on the Tuolumne River, diverting one-third of the river's water and flooding the Hetch Hetchy Valley, said at the time to be as magnificent as Yosemite Valley itself. Brower envisages the species-by-species reclamation of the valley by its native flora and fauna as wildness flourishes again. Offering viable alternatives for restoration, Brower's Hetch Hetchy is both an exploration of the pitched battle over an environmental tragedy and an inspiring reverie of a possible future.

Download or read book The Battle over Hetch Hetchy written by Robert W. Righter and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-03-17 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of the devastating 1906 earthquake and fire, the city of San Francisco desperately needed reliable supplies of water and electricity. Its mayor, James Phelan, pressed for the damming of the Tuolumne River in the newly created Yosemite National Park, setting off a firestorm of protest. For the first time in American history, a significant national opposition arose to defend and preserve nature, led by John Muir and the Sierra Club, who sought to protect what they believed was the right of all Americans to experience natural beauty, particularly the magnificent mountains of the Yosemite region. Yet the defenders of the valley, while opposing the creation of a dam and reservoir, did not intend for it to be maintained as wilderness. Instead they advocated a different kind of development--the building of roads, hotels, and an infrastructure to support recreational tourism. Using articles, pamphlets, and broadsides, they successfully whipped up public opinion against the dam. Letters from individuals began to pour into Congress by the thousands, and major newspapers published editorials condemning the dam. The fight went to the floor of Congress, where politicians debated the value of scenery and the costs of western development. Ultimately, passage of the passage of the Raker Act in 1913 by Congress granted San Francisco the right to flood the Hetch Hetchy Valley. A decade later the O'Shaughnessy Dam, the second largest civil engineering project of its day after the Panama Canal, was completed. Yet conflict continued over the ownership of the watershed and the profits derived from hydroelectrocity. To this day the reservoir provides San Francisco with a pure and reliable source of drinking water and an important source of power. Although the Sierra Club lost this battle, the controversy stirred the public into action on behalf of national parks. Future debates over dams and restoration clearly demonstrated the burgeoning strength of grassroots environmentalism. In a narrative peopled by politicians and business leaders, engineers and laborers, preservationists and ordinary citizens, Robert W. Righter tells the epic story of the first major environmental battle of the twentieth century, which reverberates to this day.

Download or read book Hetch Hetchy Reservoir Site written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Lands and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hetch Hetchy Dam Site written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Lands and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hetch Hetchy Valley written by United States. Advisory Board of Army Engineers and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hetch Hetchy A History in Documents written by Char Miller and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2020-01-30 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1913, President Woodrow Wilson signed legislation approving the construction of the O’Shaughnessy Dam to inundate the Hetch Hetchy Valley inside Yosemite National Park. This decision concluded a decade-long, highly contentious debate over the dam-and-reservoir complex to supply water to post-earthquake San Francisco, a battle that was dramatic, unsettling, and consequential. Hetch Hetchy: A History in Documents captures the tensions animating the long-running controversy and places them in their historical context. Key to understanding the debate is the prior and violent dispossession of Indigenous Nations from the valley they had stewarded for thousands of years. Their removal by the mid-nineteenth century enabled white elite tourism to take over, setting the stage for the subsequent debate for and against the dam in the early twentieth century. That debate contained a Faustian bargain: to secure an essential water supply for San Francisco meant the destruction of the valley that John Muir and others praised so highly. This contentious situation continues to reverberate, as interest groups now battle over whether to tear down the dam and restore the valley. Hetch Hetchy remains a dramatic flashpoint in American environmental culture.

Download or read book San Francisco and the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir Hearings on H J Res 223 Jan 9 12 1909 written by United States. Congress. House. Public lands and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book San Francisco and the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Public Lands and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book San Francisco and the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Lands and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transcript of hearings on a Joint Resolution to allow the city and county of San Francisco to exchange land in Yosemite National Park and adjacent national forest for portions of the Hetch Hetchy and Lake Eleanor Reservoir sites for the purpose of a municipal water supply. Includes letters and testimony from state and federal politicians and San Francisco officials.

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Download or read book Proceedings Before the Secretary of the Interior in Re Use of Hetch Hetchy Reservoir Site in the Yosemite National Park by the City of San Francisco written by United States. Department of the Interior and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book SAN FRANCISCO AND THE HETCH HETCHY RESERVOIR HEARING HELD BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON THE PUBLIC LANDS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES written by H.J. RES. and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hetch Hetchy Water Supply written by San Francisco (Calif.). Bureau of Engineering and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hetch Hetchy and Its Dam Railroad written by Ted Wurm and published by Howell-North Books, Incorporated. This book was released on 1973 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: