Download or read book A Statement of San Francisco s Side of the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir Matter written by Marsden Manson 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 In the Matter of the Application of the City and County of San Francisco for Reservoir Rights of Way in Hetch Hetchy Valley and Lake Eleanor Within the Yosemite National Park written by San Francisco (Calif.). Board of Supervisors and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book In the Matter of the Application of San Francisco for Reservoir Rights of Way in Hetch Hetchy Valley written by Marsden Manson and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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 written by Ray W. Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronological history of water use in San Francisco and the city's battle to win control of the Hetch Hetchy Valley, and design, fund, and build the dam and aqueduct

Download or read book San Francisco and the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book On the Proposed Use of a Portion of the Hetch Hetchy Eleanor and Cherry Valleys written by John Ripley Freeman and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 500 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.

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 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 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 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:

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 San Francisco and the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir written by United States Congress House Commi and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This document records the hearings held before the Committee on Public Lands of the House of Representatives in January 1909 on HJ Res 223, which authorized the construction of the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in Yosemite National Park. An important historical record of one of the most controversial environmental debates in American history. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Download or read book Endangered Dreams written by Kevin Starr and published by Americans and the California D. This book was released on 1996 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of California in the 1930s, discussing topics that include the depression, Utpon Sinclair's campaign for governor, Harry Bridges and the San Francisco general strike, and the public and private relief programs for the more than one million emigrants from the dust bowl.

Download or read book Water and Power for San Francisco from Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park written by Martin Samuel Vilas and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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