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Hetch Hetchy Valley. Iustinus Tim Avery

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Author: Iustinus Tim Avery
Date: 06 Jan 2012
Publisher: Cel Publishing
Original Languages: English
Book Format: Paperback::120 pages
ISBN10: 6200261881
ISBN13: 9786200261885
Filename: hetch-hetchy-valley.pdf
Dimension: 152x 229x 7mm::186g

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2 reviews of Hetch Hetchy Valley "I enjoyed Hetch Hetchy but it wasn't my favorite part of our Yosemite trip. I did like it because we didn't see any other people aside from park rangers. We ended up hiking the lookout point trail. Unlike all the… Hetch Hetchy—which conservationist John Muir called a “wonderfully exact counterpart” to Yosemite Valley—is, like its neighbor to the south, graced sheer granite walls and multiple gushing cataracts. But Hetch Hetchy’s greatest charm may be what it lacks: gift shops, snack stands, and crowds. In the least crowded corner of Yosemite National Park, debates about the future of Hetch Hetchy Valley have been going on for over 100 years. When naturalist and conservationist John Muir first visited the valley, he wrote that is was "a grand landscape garden, one of Nature's rarest and most precious mountain temples. Yosemite Valley. In 1870, Muir called Hetch Hetchy Valley “a wonderfully exact counterpart of the great Yosemite.” In the early spring through late fall, visitors have easy access to a vast wilderness filled with high-country lakes, streams, and wildlife. A rare O'Shaughnessy Dam is a 430-foot (131 m) high concrete arch-gravity dam in Tuolumne County, California, in the United States. It impounds the Tuolumne River, forming the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir at the lower end of Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park, about 160 miles (260 km) east of San Francisco. The dam and reservoir are the source Yosemite’s Hetch Hetchy Valley was dammed and flooded nearly 100 years ago, but the prospect of draining the reservoir continues to inspire romantic imaginings about unlocking a brand-new outdoor-recreation mecca in one of the country’s most popular national parks. In 1987, Secretary of the Interior Donald Hodel proposed a plan to restore Hetch Hetchy Valley. The Sierra Club supports the continuing pressure to tear down the dam and restore the valley, and the organization Restore Hetch Hetchy has much information about current status, the truth about common myths and ways you can make your opinion heard. Hetch Hetchy was once a resplendent glacier carved valley, with towering cliffs and waterfalls cascading onto a serene valley floor. Pioneer conservationist John Muir called it a "remarkably exact counterpart" to the now world-famous Yosemite Valley - 15 miles to its south. Shari Belafonte narrates the story of Congress allowing a dam to be built in a national park - for the only time in American history. Restore Hetch Hetchy board members discuss the campaign to return Hetch Hetchy Valley to Yosemite and the American people … 1 of 22 Hetch Hetchy Valley in 1917, left, before the construction of O’Shaughnessy Dam, and in 1933, right, after the area was flooded to create the reservoir. 2 of 22 Hetch Hetchy valley before reservoir was created O'Shaugnessy Dam, September 20, 1917 Handout photo courtesy of San Francisco Public Utilities Commission. PBS NewsHour correspondent Spencer Michels and producer Catherine Wise produced this segment in 2005 about the environmental debate over Hetch Hetchy. Things to do near Hetch Hetchy Reservoir. Wapama Falls at Hetch Hetchy; Nature & Parks in Yosemite National Park Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, Yosemite National Park: Address, Phone Number, Hetch Hetchy Reservoir Reviews: 4.5/5 All reviews evergreen lodge yosemite valley john muir park entrance beautiful area nice walk granite walls miles

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