Tuolumne River Preservation Trust.

Organization History

The Tuolumne River Preservation Trust was formed in 1982 to mount a campaign for Congressional designation of the Tuolumne River as Wild and Scenic to meet the immediate crisis of the river's loss of legal protection in October of that year. Based in San Francisco, the Trust grew out of the Tuolumne River Coalition, which was built on the Citizens Action Project, an energy conservation group that coordinated the efforts of the Sierra Club, Friends of the River, and fishing and boating groups to oppose the City of San Francisco's continued involvement with the Clavey-Wards Ferry Dam project. The Trust was formed to act on the recommendations of the Tuolumne Study Team, whose 1979 proposal urged Wild and Scenic River status for the undeveloped portions of the Tuolumne.

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