In this edition of Endgadget’s Hitting the Books selection, Eat, Poop, Die: How Animals Make Our World, University of Vermont conservation biologist Joe Roman recounts …
The removal of the Elwha dams was the largest dam removal project in U.S. history. More than 20 million tons of sediment were released–about a …
Ten years after the largest dam removal in history—on the Elwha River, in Washington State—scientists are chronicling an inspiring story of ecological rebirth. Recovering salmon …
More than a century ago, two dams were placed on the Elwha, blocking almost 90 miles of the river and its tributaries. The dams were removed in August 2014, …
Fish species on the Elwha River are returning now that dams that once blocked the river have been removed. However, according to Sam Brenkman, chief …
Nearly a decade after the last Elwha River dam came down, the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe could see its first fishery on the river in …
A pre-pandemic episode of The Wild podcast on the dam removal and subsequent rebirth of the Elwha. It started as a glacier. Then, about 13,000 …
And when the dams came down they fired up a new 16.4 million dollar hatchery to dilute the century-old genetics. A recent study, with its …
Adult chinook returns to the Elwha since dam removal is the highest since the late 1980s, with more than 7,600 estimated in the 2019 count. …
After a decades-long battle on Washington State’s Elwha River, a coalition of environmentalists, scientists, and locals succeed in having two dams demolished. Six years …