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6 jan 1913 ano - Hetch-Hetchy incident (1913)

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Preservationists dealt major scront (1913) when fed gov’t allowed San Francisco to build dam for municipal water supply in Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National party; To Sierra club, including naturalist John Muir, Hetch Hetchy = temple of nature ; Other conservationists like Gifford Pinchot thought that wilderness = waste; Pinchot & TR wanted to use nation’s natural resource intelligently; Had to fight against greedy commercial interests & romantic preservationists

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6 jan 1913 ano
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~ 112 years ago