TY  - BOOK
AU  - Righter,Robert W.
TI  - The battle over Hetch Hetchy: America's most controversial dam and the birth of modern environmentalism 
SN  - 9780199788934 (ebook) :
AV  - TD225.S25 
U1  - 363.610979447 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Water-supply
KW  - California
KW  - San Francisco Bay Area
KW  - History
KW  - Water resources development
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Environmentalism
KW  - United States
KW  - Hetch Hetchy Valley (Calif.)
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - 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
UR  - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195149470.001.0001
ER  -