(Ebook pdf) Dam!: Water, Power, Politics, and Preservation in Hetch Hetchy and Yosemite National Park
·•●- John W. Simpson ·•●-
| #2245823 in Books | 2005-07-12 | 2005-07-12 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.50 x1.22 x6.29l,1.47 | File Name: 0375422315 | 384 pages
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| More than just the Dam|By Leif Hatlen|In a short book (356 pages) the author covers a lot of territory all centered around the daming of Hetch Hetchy valley in Yosemite National Park. There is a brief but interesting account of the history of the National Park Service and Yosemite; a quick sketch of John Muir; and then a history of the politics of San Francisco as it relates|From Publishers Weekly|An ardent preservationist, Simpson (Visions of Paradise: Glimpses of Our Landscape's Legacy) argues for the restoration of Yosemite's Hetch Hetchy Valley. Although the valley is in a national park, in 1913 Congress passed the Raker
A vivid account of America’s first environmental cause célèbre, which illuminates our attitudes toward fundamental questions of growth, development, and our place in nature.
The building of the O’Shaughnessy Dam and Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in the middle of Yosemite National Park–despite the availability of less expensive, less technically challenging, and less politically complicated possibilities–set off a defining controvers...
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