It’s been over a decade since two dams came out of the Elwha River on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula. Salmon are returning, cougars, elk, foxes and bears roam 800 acres of newly restored land ...
David Graves Tearing down the Elwha Dam, 108 feet tall, and the Glines Canyon Dam, 210 feet tall, would be the largest dam removal project ever in the world, opening more than 70 miles of spawning ...
We have, you know, more marine-derived nutrients coming up the river as salmon and steelhead return. When these fish swim upriver to spawn, they bring nutrients from the ocean to the Elwha in ...
The removal of the Elwha dam was a long and arduous process, but improving salmon numbers and the return of a Coho fishery for the LEKT show that land-use changes are a key element in the fight to ...
Ten years ago, the world's largest dam removal began on the Elwha River, allowing salmon to access their lost habitat. This is the story of the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe's connection to that river ...
The agency will evaluate the status and threats for salmon spawning north of the Columbia River and west of the Elwha River, including in the Chehalis, Quinault, Queets, Hoh and Quillayute river ...