Hetch Hetchy: Undoing A Great American Mistake
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.55 (898 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 159714228X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 144 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-29 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Examining the stunning engineering feat that the dam represented to some when it was constructed, as well as the heartbreak of others, such as John Muir, over the loss of a valley as radiant as any in Yosemite National Park, award-winning nature writer Kenneth Brower's Hetch Hetchy: Undoing a Great American Mistake is a tribute to the men and women whose lives were shaped by those waters, and the wild landscape that still exists beneath them. Offering viable alternatives for restoration, Brower's Hetch Hetchy is both an exploration of the pitched battle over an
Great book - restoration can and should take place - Adolph R. Great book - restoration can and should take place - other water agencies have done far more to reduce their damage to the environment. R. Sherrer said Pass - reimagine San Francisco and San Mateo counties without the water and power. A pixie dust inspired reimagining that would turn back the clock without considering real time repercussions for San Francisco, San Mateo or Yosemite. Creating another exhaust-filled tourist-clogged valley in Yosemite Park - why?Pass.
. Kenneth Brower has written for Atlantic, Audubon, National Geographic, Reader's Digest, Smithsonian, Sierra, and others, with an emphasis on environmental issues and the natural world. Ken lives in Berkeley, California. He is the author of several books including The Starship and the Canoe, Wake of the Whale, A Song for Satawal, Realms of the Sea, The Winemaker's Marsh, Freeing Keiko, and, most recentl
. Alongside A State of Change artist and historical ecologist Laura Cunningham's pictorial reimagining of a drained Hetch Hetchy landscape over the course of two, ten, a hundered years, Brower envisages the species-by-species reclamation of the valley by its native flora and fauna as wildness flourishes again. Examining the stunning engineering feat that the dam represented to some when it was constructed, as well as the heartbreak of others, such as John Muir, over the loss of a valley as radiant as any in Yosemite National Park, award-winning nature writer Kenneth Brower's Hetch Hetchy: Undoing a Great American Mistake is a tribute to the men and women whose lives we