This is exactly what I needed today. Listening to Harrison talk about restoring Hetch Hetchy is like a dreaming...

Great video! Thanks Harrison Ford! Drain it & return it to the American people ASAP!! SF needs to own up & correct this historic mistake.

I was hiking there yesterday and have been a few times before. This time I wanted to know the history of it. I live thirty minutes from there and will be going back at least twice a month or more to hike and camp. Would be beautiful to see it restored but I can’t see wha it’s doing now. I hiked 13 miles and people just need to get out and see the beauty of it all.

Thank you Harrison for teaching us exactly what and why this happened. What boggles my nogg’n is this. Why not give the money for the study to see if we can do what we all known can be done. Restore this valley, help with the overcrowding on its sister valley, and supplying the water and power to SF. If we can spend to fly into space, we should restore what is here on this earth.

grew up going to camp mather every summer and hiked Hetch Hetchy reservoir often. Would be amazing to see it drained but still beautiful seeing towering granite shooting a thousand feet or more, straight out of the water. would take a loooong time to bring that valley floor back to life.

Please keep fighting! We must restore the valley.

Kudos to Harrison Ford. They should never have destroyed this beautiful valley in the first place. SF can get their water from elsewhere. Scientists said that can easily be accomplished.

I call it MY'semite as its my most favorite spot on planet earth. . I was 8 yrs old when I first saw the biggest "rock" ever AND I got to see the for reals "Fire falls"...where a burning tree was pushed over the edges of Glacier Point as it fell over 3,200 feet down below the cascade of spectacular shower of sparkly glitter , fire and burning sizzling tree fell down to the valley floor below. My geology professor said that it was ended because of the visitors watching from the valley floor below were being robbed, and the too many visitors trampled and trashed the meadow, left the meadow damaged, plus the massive traffic jam it created...NO RESPECT for or national/world treasure. Was our lifelong dream to work/live in YNP...Park Ranger and their communications system...but life took us in a different direction because of serious health issues. We met an older gentleman who was a cashier in Curry Village store. He shared with us that he's lived/loved YNP his entire life. He rents a very old, rustic, very small cabin, looks over Half Dome. He said he never wants to leave, so will work until he's gone. We were seething with jealousy. Our beautiful, country home could NEVER compare with a cabin in Yosemite. Now that we're older, we now have visions of being a host in one of their camps....and I'd love being an informational park ranger...thats if they still have that program...heck, we'd be happy cleaning toilets, picking up trash! One of our favorite things to do in YNP is see the one man play, Lee Stetson" who portrays himself as John Muir and he discusses the struggle with trying to save Hetch Hetchy valley. I believe it broke Muirs heart knowing the battle was lost lead to his demise. Stetson has a few videos of his plays....were about 90 mins long, $25 per ticket, usually sold out, but is worth every penny BUT the one man "play" is not long enough as we always sit there riveted to our seats, hanging on and listening to every word. Lee Stetson is a true master at what he does... He seriously "nailed it" in bringing you to tears and makes you so angry about the total devastation and destruction of Hetch Hetchy forever and a day. I believe IF Hetch Hetchy does get on the road to restoration, John Muir may come back to life just to see that DAMMED dam come down!. What happened is a National Tragedy, much MUCH worse than 911 and all for nothing...is too bad they were in such a hurry, dishonest and underhanded....MONEY grubbing monsters, but is no different now...same monsters driving people to the ground. Here's a link to Lee Stetsons one man play....enjoy! I know you'll love it IF you love YNP kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pLx6YLWAncXaZJc.html

Let's put it to a vote of the citizens

2021 any news about the restoration?

OMG! WHY HASN'T THE PUBLIC SEEN THIS!

If it is drained , will there be a huge " bathtub ring " lasting for a long long time ?

Senator Diane Feinstein Dem CA. Former mayor of San Francisco. Has for decades opposed in Congress the valley restoration

Restore the valley

5/4/2022 So, if this video was from July 2014, it's been 8 years and the dam is still there, nothing has been done and even the environmentalist left and a left leaning state and federal government can't get anything done. I've seen a restoration of a creek near Atlanta, where they removed a very small dam. It took years to get through the red tape on that, enough said. DON'T HOLD YOUR BREATH.

Yet they still haven't done a damn thing to restore the area. I wonder what party agreed to protect Yosemite and what party decided to flood the area?

what about the hoover dam ? we need water 💦 💦!

🤔 hmmm

Hey,if we have a chance to drain it ,and then hear everyone in San Francisco cry about not hsvingvp enough water ,do it. I don't get it ,you have a beautiful lake ,and it supplies water to the....,,,,.,people ,or whatever lives in the once beautiful San Francisco area,and they just cry about it and if the same people have their way ,they will close off Yosemite, and then in a few decades ,they would have another place to close off. Yeah,it's ridiculous, but ,that is the crazy way Californians are. I was born and raised in Southern California, so I can say whatever. I think it's just a ridiculous thing. Why not drain the lake lake Hollywood, that is covering up something . But they actually like that ,and keeps the home prices high.

Why don't we go a step further and give the land back to the natives?

Where shall millions get their water instead? The drought is not getting any better, populations and urban sprawl are soaring, and norcal is doing better than socal when it comes to water.

DEMOLISH Hetch Hetchy Dam !!

1. Hetch hetchy valley is largely inaccessable by automobile. 2. Demolition of the dam in a huge undertaking which will require construction of roadse and operation of heavy equipment round the clock for years. 3. Draining the lake will create massive amounts of methane. 4. The lake being there now harms no wildlife. All of this is a pipe dream and philosophical circle jerk by extremists with little to no environmental benefit.

It’s a fantastic water resource . Sorry , got to pay the price for an arid climate among millions of people

It's not practical nor smart! If the state says it is it ISN"T! What's done is done, leave it there, the benefits outweigh any sight seeing!

Imagine a rich actor virtue signaling about stuff he knows nothing about. Hetch Hetchy is critical to the Bay Area and provides clean mountain water to millions of people! This idea of removing this dam has been rejected!

Lowkey losing respect for Harrison ford