Muir died of pneumonia in a Los Angeles hospital on December 24, 1914, just one year after losing the Hetch Hetchy fight.

Once rivaling Yosemite Valley in beauty, Hetch Hetchy now lies beneath a reservoir—but its trails, waterfalls, and solitude still shine. With fewer crowds and rich history, this hidden corner of ...

Along the way it runs directly under Cal Stadium, numerous BART lines, Lake Temescal, Contra Costa College, various freeways and the Hetch Hetchy aqueduct which supplies the East Bay and San Francisco ...

While a small-scale project (e.g., Newlands Project) took less than 3 years to build, grand-scale projects could continue for 20 years (e.g., Hetch Hetchy Aqueduct), while others could take at least ...

We had barely gotten rolling when we saw a sign for the Pulgas Temple, but had no idea that we were actually at the terminus for the Hetch Hetchy Aqueduct. We parked and followed a path ...

The aqueduct project to bring fresh water 160 miles — from the Sierra Nevada’s Hetch Hetchy Valley to the Bay Area — took 24 years to build and cost $102 million and the lives of dozens of ...

Southern California later built another aqueduct to tap a small supply of Colorado River ... San Francisco has its own dam on the Tuolumne River that floods the Hetch Hetchy Valley near Yosemite ...

One of the four engineers of the Catskills system, John Freeman, designed the Hetch Hetchy Dam, San Francisco’s reservoir in Yosemite, as well as the L.A. aqueduct, which took back lands that ...

Hetch Hetchy Reservoir is formed behind the dam which is the source for the Hetch Hetchy Aqueduct, which provides water for over 2 million people in San Francisco and other municipalities of the west ...

which is one of the largest diverters of water via its Hetch Hetchy Dam. It also lacks support from environmental groups, which argue it doesn’t go far enough to protect salmon and steelhead habitat ...