To the editor: All of the reservation system did was cut back the flexibility of the general public to go to the Yosemite Valley, making lots of people sad (“Yosemite ditches reservations, drawing large crowds in a free-for-all,” Might 6). It didn’t remedy the issue of the large and rising demand to go to Yosemite. However there’s a answer, and that’s to develop the neighboring Hetch Hetchy Valley, which may be very related in measurement and wonder to the Yosemite Valley. Like Yosemite, it has many waterfalls, steep granite cliffs and mountaineering trails.
This answer could be political in addition to costly. That’s as a result of the town and county of San Francisco had been allowed to transform the Hetch Hetchy Valley right into a reservoir with a dam, accomplished in 1934, that gives low cost water and energy to the encompassing space. Hetch Hetchy is now underneath 300 toes of water. On the time of its completion, the nation’s inhabitants was a lot smaller than it’s right now, and only a few folks actually cared about this environmental catastrophe in a nationwide park.
Lately, a number of dams have been eliminated to permit the salmon to spawn. It’s time to take away this dam, and San Francisco ought to pay the price.
San Francisco can have the water. It simply wants to search out one other place to retailer it.
Larry Pearson, Burbank
