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The battle over Hetch Hetchy [electronic resource] : America's most controversial dam and the birth of modern environmentalism / Robert W. Righter.
Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2005Description: 1 online resource (xxii, 303 p.) : ill., mapsISBN: 9780199788934 (ebook) :Subject(s): Water-supply -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area -- History | Water resources development -- Political aspects -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area | Environmentalism -- United States
| Hetch Hetchy Valley (Calif.)Additional Physical Form: Print version : 9780195149470DDC classification: 363.610979447 LOC classification: TD225.S25Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: Rebuilding after the 1906 earthquake, the city of San Francisco petitioned for a water reservoir to be constructed within the newly created Yosemite National Park. This sparked a debate over whether nature should be controlled or left alone, from which emerged the modern environmentalism movement.
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Rebuilding after the 1906 earthquake, the city of San Francisco petitioned for a water reservoir to be constructed within the newly created Yosemite National Park. This sparked a debate over whether nature should be controlled or left alone, from which emerged the modern environmentalism movement.
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.