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Hetch Hetchy - A History in Documents (Paperback)
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Hetch Hetchy - A History in Documents (Paperback)
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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 California Indians from the valley they had
stewarded for thousands of years. Their removal by the mid-19th
century enabled white elite tourism to take over, setting the stage
for the subsequent debate for and against the dam in the early 20th
century. That debate contained a Faustian bargain. To secure an
essential water supply for San Francisco meant the destruction of
the valley John Muir and others praised so highly. This contentious
situation continues reverberate, as interest groups now battle over
whether to tear down the dam and restore the valley. Hetch Hetchy
remains a dramatic flash point in American environmental culture.
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