Yosemite Valley

Latitude: 
37.72
Longitude: 
-119.67
Region Related Areas: 
North America, United States
GeoNames ID: 
5 410 959

The Fight for Hetch Hetchy

The proposed O’Shaughnessy Dam in the Hetch Hetchy Valley of Yosemite National Park precipitated a national environmental debate from 1908 to 1913. In 1913 the congress permitted construction and it was completed in 1923.

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