and the river runs wild, tearing up the road that ran along its banks. For the first time in over a hundred years, the Lower Elwha Klallam tribal members can catch salmon on a free-flowing Elwha.

The Elwha River is fed by several glaciers and perennial ... to the decimation of culturally and economically important salmon runs that Indigenous peoples like the LEKT had relied on throughout ...

chuckles ] the rewilding of the Elwha. The river runs through Olympic National Park ... They have tagged salmon, steelhead, and bull trout. The signals give some idea of where the fish are ...

In the end, freeing the Elwha cost three times as much ... And somewhere out there in the North Pacific were the salmon and steelhead whose genetic code still urges them home to this river. Even after ...

The fish are a reminder that dam removals, when chosen and conducted appropriately, can help restore dwindling salmon runs at a time when most stocks are declining throughout ... We’ve seen similar ...

This is the story of the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe's connection to that river and the hatchery that kept those salmon runs alive. The dam removal and successful hatchery program has protected ...

“Early returning spring-run salmon are in trouble all along the West Coast, and Endangered Species Act protection could help stop their slide toward extinction.” The agency will evaluate the status ...