There used to be two separate Yosemites. This composite photo circa 1900 depicts the Hetch Hetchy Valley that was flooded under waters to a level of half way up those majestic mountains and waterfalls, drowned by O’Shaughnessy dam built in the 1920s. Southern California was not the only water pirate in our state’s history: this is the Northern California’s infamy. John Muir and his nascent Sierra Club fought this for seven years and lost, as did we all. Click above photo to see enlargement of the full valley floor…
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YOU CAN’T FIGHT IT, IT’S CHINATOWN . . .
