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Hetch Hetchy : undoing a great American mistake / Kenneth Brower.

Title
Hetch Hetchy : undoing a great American mistake / Kenneth Brower.
Author
Brower, Kenneth, 1944-
Publication
Berkeley, Calif. : Heyday, c2013.

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Description
118 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), map; 21 cm.
Summary
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.
Subject
  • Water-supply > San Francisco Bay Area > History
  • Water resources development > Political aspects > San Francisco Bay Area
  • Dam retirement > Environmental aspects > San Francisco Bay Area
  • Environmentalism > San Francisco Bay Area > History
  • Hetch Hetchy Reservoir (Calif.)
  • Hetch Hetchy Valley (Calif.)
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Storm loaf -- Crucible -- Age of dams -- After the deluge.
ISBN
  • 9781597142281 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 159714228X (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2012048053
OCLC
  • 815383776
  • SCSB-10815596
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library