Position: To Dam the Valley |
Position: To Stop the Damming |
Arguments:
“It will be the damdest finest sight you ever saw. To provide for the little children, men, and women of the 800,000 population who swarm the shores of San Francisco Bay is a matter of much greater importance than encouraging the few who, in solitary loneliness, will sit on the peak of the Sierras loafing around the throne of the God of nature and singing His praise. That is all." - Gifford Pinchot, House Committee on Public Lands, 1913 |
Arguments:
"This use of the valley, so destructive and foreign to its proper park use, has long been planned and prayed for, and is still being prayed for by the San Francisco board of supervisors, not because water as pure and abundant cannot be got from adjacent sources outside the park - for it can, -- but seemingly only because of the comparative cheapness of the dam required.” - John Muir's visit to Hetch Hetchy, 1908. |
Audio Interview: Dr. Nash on the election of Woodrow Wilson and change in the debate
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Audio Interview: Dr. Brechin, Professor, UC Berkeley, on the support of Washington for Muir's stance in the debate.
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