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Vol 3, No. 2 Summer 2004 Tuolumne Me-Wuk Tribal Council Supports Hetch Hetchy Restoration

estore Hetch Hetchy and for the San Francisco Bay Area relatives lived in Hetch Hetchy wishes to sincerely thank water and power users. Valley before the R the Tuolumne Me-Wuk Hetch Hetchy Valley, in Yosemite was dammed. We have strong ties Tribal Council for the in nearby Yosemite following supportive Valley as well. letter it wrote on No- Ron Good, Executive vember 14, 2003 to Director of Restore Congressman George Hetch Hetchy, has Radanovich, Chair of acknowledged Hetch the National Parks Hetchy Valley as our Subcommittee: homeland, and we appreciate that he has Dear Congressman involved us early in the Radanovich: planning process. We The Tuolumne Band agree that exploration of of Me-Wuk Indians fully possibilities for restora- Restore Hetch Hetchy presents an Albert Bierstadt poster of supports the efforts of Hetch Hetchy Valley to Tuolumne Me-Wuk Tribal Elders. Left tion of Hetch Hetchy the nonprofit group to right: Johnny Dick, Marvin Marine, Bob Hackamack (Chair Valley is timely and Restore Hetch Hetchy. of RHH Technical/Engineering Committee), Millie Hawkins, realistic based on the We ask you to support Ron Good (RHH Executive Director), Sonny Hendricks. existence of and poten- one million dollars in tial for other options for funding for a Feasibility Study to National Park, is the indigenous energy generation and demonstrate win-win options for the territory of the Tuolumne Me-Wuk restoration of Hetch Hetchy Valley people. Our Tribal Members’ continued on page 2 Foreground shows mortar holes for grinding acorns left in Restore Hetch Hetchy is: Hetch Hetchy Valley by ancestors of present-day EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Tuolumne Me-Wuk Ron Good Tribal members. Background shows the field of stumps left by BOARD OF DIRECTORS San Francisco when it Harold Wood, Chair cut down all the trees on Spreck Rosekrans, Vice-Chair the floor of Hetch Laura Lockwood, Treasurer Hetchy Valley in the Mark Palley, Secretary early 1900s before David Brower (Deceased) building the dam and Robert Brower reservoir. Mark Cederborg Donald Fuhrer Robert Hackamack continued from page 1 Geoff McQuilkIn Dr. Jerry Meral water storage, and current and process. Formal Agreements must Marsh Pitman future repair and maintenance be set in place among all concerned Kay Pitts needs for existing Hetch Hetchy at each juncture. The Me-Wuk William Resneck Richard Rypinski water and energy delivery systems. Tribe is committed to remaining Felicia Woytak The Me-Wuk Tribe knows that involved, over time, with this restoration is a process that would project.

ADVISORY COMMITTEE span generations. As this project Thank you for supporting Dr. Ronald Alessio Allison evolves it is imperative that the Restore Hetch Hetchy with one Dr. Peter Andersen perspective and desires of members million dollars in funding for an James Bush of the Me-Wuk Tribe, and those of initial Feasibility Study. Jerry Cadagan  Yvon Chouinard other tribes with ties to Hetch Sincerely, Paul Davis Hetchy Valley, be incorporated into James Fryar Tom Dosh the planning and implementation Acting Tribal Chair Jeffrey Holt Huey Johnson Robert Kallman Deborah Landowne Christine White Loberg PLEASE SEND US Mike McCloskey Tim Molinare YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS Dr. Barbara Mossberg Dr. Roderick Frazier Nash SO WE CAN KEEP YOU Jeff Nixon Kathryn Petersen UP-TO-DATE! Mark Ross Galen Rowell (Deceased) end your e-mail address to: [email protected] You can Lee Stetson read our newsletters on-line. If you would prefer not to Dr. Ed Wayburn receive a "hard copy" please send an e-mail to: Richard Wiebe S [email protected]

2 Meet Our Board: Marsh Pitman

arsh Pitman readily Yosemite Field School of Natural embraced the prospect History, a Mof a restored Hetch training program for naturalists, in Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National the summer following his BA in Park when he first heard about it Biological Sciences from San Jose from Ron Good in 1997. State. He worked as a seasonal Marsh got so enthused that he naturalist in Yosemite for the and his wife, Carol, hosted the summer of 1951. Marsh’s graduate June1999 meeting at their Merced, study at Stanford in Education and California home where those in Botany at the University of assembled agreed to form Restore Arizona and other studies have Hetch Hetchy as an independent contributed to his teaching career in non-profit entity and serve as initial Hayward, California and then in members of the Board of Directors. Merced - closer to Yosemite. During Marsh’s interest in Yosemite his tenure as a life sciences instruc- started from family stories of travel tor at Merced College, Marsh Marsh Pitman by mule team and wagon from initiated the Environmental Science Modesto, and adventures of camp- course. He was able to arrange for faculty and administrators. ing for a month at a time in students from Merced to be intro- Marsh has led Hetch Hetchy Tuolumne Meadows during the duced to museum techniques as wildflower and natural history summers from 1912 to 1916. The they provided needed assistance to walks in April or May for several stories and photographs on the the curator of the Yosemite Museum years. Those interested in joining walls of his grandparent’s home in 1970. Marsh has had a variety of him in 2005 or 2006 are invited to were reinforced by Marsh’s first roles as naturalist, outings leader, make contact via visit to the Tuolumne River water- and tour leader in California, [email protected]. Others shed, thanks to his grandparents. Switzerland, Alaska, Hawaii, New interested in assisting with educa- They patiently stopped just east of Zealand, Ecuador, Peru, Kenya, tional opportunities centered in the so their 13 year-old Tanzania, and Rwanda. Hetch Hetchy region of Yosemite grandson could ascend to 10,000- Marsh has been a community National Park are also invited to foot elevation for the first time, environmental leader in interacting contact Marsh at this e-mail ad- before visiting their beloved with administrators and planners of dress.  Tuolumne Meadows once again. the new campus of the University of Grandmother Pitman had the California - Merced. Through the makings of lemonade to add to the efforts of many concerned citizens, water of the Soda Springs as he the UC Merced campus will be heard some stories of their experi- situated in a more eco-friendly ences repeated yet again. location, and with a greater aware- Marsh was fortunate to be ness of environmental concerns by selected for the 1950 class of the

3 RHH Feasibility Study UPDATE

estore Hetch Hetchy primary “mover and shaker” for our photographer Tony Dunn. On June volunteers and staff have Feasibility Study. Bob Hackamack, 27th, Jerry will present a draft of R been hard at work prepar- the Chair of our Technical/Engi- the Feasibility Study to the Board ing our Feasibility Study, and hope neering Committee, and Spreck of Directors. to have it ready by the end of Rosekrans, another member of the While many people have volun- summer! Committee, have been invaluable teered their time and incredible The completion of our Feasibil- participants. All three are members talents toward the Feasibility Study, ity Study will represent a very of our Board of Directors. And, such a project is not without significant milestone for Restore graphic artists Jef Gunion from substantial costs. But, incalculable Hetch Hetchy, as it will make Felton and Diane Blakely from benefits will ultimately result from recommendations for removing the Penn Valley are doing a wonderful a restored Hetch Hetchy Valley in O’Shaughnessy Dam in an environ- job of presenting the material in a Yosemite National Park. Thanks mentally sensitive manner, support- visually pleasing manner. Please very much to so many of you who ing natural restoration processes, see the above photo of a draft of the made special contributions for the and examining alternative water front cover of the Feasibility Study research, production, and distribu- storage and electrical power op- that our graphic artists have pre- tion of the Feasibility Study. tions. pared. The top image of Hetch It’s very exciting to see it all Dr. Jerry Meral, the former Hetchy is by artist Brooks Ander- coming together!  Executive Director of the Planning son, and the bottom image is by & Conservation League, is the

4 Attorney Bill Yeates from Fair Oaks Receives a Beautiful Photo

ttorney Bill Yeates from Fair Oaks receives a beautiful photo by A James McGrew of Hetch Hetchy's wildflowers and waterfalls in appreciation of excellent legal representation against the City of San Francisco and the San Fran- cisco Public Utilities Commission result- ing in a favorable settlement in 2003. Others (left to right) in the lawfirm who assisted with the lawsuit were attorneys Keith Wagner and Mary Akens, and office assistant Matt Coldwell. Not pictured is Carol Yeates, office administrator. Thanks to the entire legal team. See the Summer 2003, Winter 2003, and Spring 2004 newsletters for information about the lawsuit. 

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5 Testimonial for “Hetch Hetchy: Yosemite’s Lost Valley” documentary film

Photo by Taber, 1908 Taber, Photo by Looking up Hetch Hetchy Valley from Surprise Point, 1908.

HH Executive Director, Ron slab and just laid there for over an only visiting the park for the first Good, received this e-mail hour looking up at the mix of time in 1996. I fell in love with it Rfrom RHH member Guy Ward comets and veils plunging down- immediately and was shocked to from Richmond, Virginia: ward toward me. Even better, learn about the other great valley Thanks for sending the DVD nobody else was around, not even (Hetch Hetchy) in Yosemite, and copy of your new documentary on the main trail. I couldn’t believe what happened to it. I live 3,000 film: “Hetch Hetchy: Yosemite’s I had such an amazing sight all to miles away and wasn’t born until Lost Valley.” I thought it was myself. Seeing Tueeulala Fall like 1958, decades after the dam was excellent! that just made the whole experience built, but I felt like I had been The film footage of Tueeulala very special. And Wapama Fall was robbed. Hetch Hetchy Valley would Fall rekindled one of my fondest roaring as usual. have been the place for me. memories of Yosemite National The views that had of The work your group is doing Park. On my last visit to the park in Tueeulala Fall, Wapama Fall, and makes me certain that one day I’ll May 2000 I hiked the Hetch Hetchy Kolana Rock from Hetch Hetchy’s be able to stand on the Hetch trail twice. On the first hike, meadows must have been breathtak- Hetchy Valley floor and see it in all Tueeulala was only a delicate wisp. ing. I think if we all had Hetch its glory. When the ceremony But, by the end of the week, a surge Hetchy Valley to hike through with occurs decommissioning the dam of warm weather had transformed it meadows, the two great waterfalls, and starting the restoration process I into the waterfall that Muir de- groves of trees, and a free flowing want to at least be able to say I had scribed, as “the most graceful river, it would be as rewarding an a small part in making that great waterfall I have ever seen.” experience as any in the national day happen. I was so excited to see it like park system. And, I’ve seen many See page 7 of the newsletter to that, I left the trail and climbed up of our nation’s best parks over the order a DVD or VHS copy of our the talus slope to a point almost last 15 years, east and west. documentary film!  right beside it. I found a flat rock I’m a latecomer to Yosemite,

6 Please Use Our Website Catalog To View the Items Described Below at www.hetchhetchy.org.

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7 RHH members John and Betsy Griffith from Murphys rode their bikes (with a RHH bumper sticker!) from the Strawberry Music Festival to Hetch Hetchy where RHH had a Free Speech table over the Memorial Day weekend.

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RENEW RHH volunteers (left to right) Kirk Kelly (from South Carolina) and Mark Cederborg (RHH Board member from YOUR Vallejo, CA) help staff the RHH Free Speech table at Hetch Hetchy along with RHH Executive Director, Ron Good, over MEMBERSHIP the Memorial Day weekend. TO RESTORE RHH Office Moves to Sonora!

HETCH The RHH office has moved to Sonora in Tuolumne County! If you’re planning a trip to the foothills or to Yosemite, please stop in. Call (209) HETCHY! 533 - HHV 1 [4481] or e-mail [email protected] to make Use the form on page 7 to renew. arrangements for visiting.

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