My Lists
Featured Lists
Dam!
water, power, politics, and preservation in Hetch Hetchy and Yosemite National Park
By Simpson, John
- ISBN
- 978-0-37542-231-7
- Publisher
- New York : Pantheon Books, c2005.
REVIEWS
Library Journal
Reviewed on August 15, 2005
No event in the history of the environmental movement evoked as much outrage as did the 1913 construction of the O'Shaughnessey Dam in northern California's Hetch Hetchy Valley. Simpson (landscape architecture & natural resources, Ohio State Univ.; Visions of Paradise: Glimpses of Our Landscape's Legacy) divides this narrative into two parts: a history of Yosemite National Park within the context of the late 1800s conservation movement...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
