An Unhappy Anniversary for Hetch Hetchy
Legal Planet: Environmental Law and Policy 2013-12-20
Summary:
December 19th marks a sad event in American environmental history. It was 100 years ago today that President Woodrow Wilson signed the Raker Act, authorizing the City of San Francisco to build a dam that would flood the Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park in order to deliver water supplies to San Francisco. Contemporary […]