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1913, the first truly national controversy about America’s
wilderness gripped the country: should Hetch Hetchy, a valley within
Yosemite National Park, be dammed and flooded to create a reservoir
for San Francisco? On one side, utilitarians argued that the benefits
of water and power for the city outweighed the good of an untouched
valley. On the other side, preservationists pleaded the intrinsic
value of wilderness itself. After a long and bitter debate, the
dam was approved by Congress. The schism in American attitudes that
emerged in the dispute still endures. The Wilderness Idea explores
this seminal chapter in environmental politics by tracing the paths
of the leaders of the two factions: John Muir, the brilliant and
eccentric founder of the Sierra Club, and Gifford Pinchot, the Yale-educated
aristocrat who became the first chief of the U.S. Forest Service.
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Introduction
• In Production •
The Films • Press
• Contact ©2002-2008 Florentine Films/Hott Productions, Inc.
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