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Lawmakers call for Hetch Hetchy study By Stuart Leavenworth -- Bee Staff Writer Published 2:15 am PDT Tuesday, September 14, 2004 Two California legislators are calling for a state study to examine if a submerged valley in Yosemite National Park could be restored without hurting water and power supplies. In a Sept. 9 letter, Assemblyman Joe Canciamilla, D-Pittsburg, and Lois Wolk, D-Davis, urged Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to endorse a restoration study for the Hetch Hetchy Valley, which was inundated and turned into a reservoir for San Francisco in 1923. "We feel this idea is worthy of review by the State...

Kitzhabers says U.S. failing salmon porsdalb The Associated Press5/1/02 3:06 AM PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Gov. John Kitzhaber said the federal government has failed to carry out most of the measures it promised when it decided against breaching the Snake River dams, and those failures will hurt salmon recovery throughout the Northwest. Moreover, Kitzhaber said Tuesday that the Columbia River Basin might soon mimic the Klamath River Basin, where hundreds of farmers lost irrigation water last year because it was held back to protect endangered fish. "We are headed for the same future in the Columbia River Basin -- an...