Lands Commissioner Cancels Timber Harvest In Elwha Watershed
The harvest of a 126-acre patch of timber along the Elwha River, known as the Power Plant Forest, has been canceled despite having been auctioned …
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Undamming a river, rebuilding a forest | WILD HOPE
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 …
DamNation: Tribe Fishes for Salmon on Elwha River for First Time in More Than a Century
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, …
Controversial timber sale near Elwha River moving forward
The Washington state Department of Natural Resources has its priorities backward. A controversial state timber sale near the Elwha River is moving forward despite a …
DamNation: Strong fish counts seen in Elwha
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 …
DanNation: The Beautiful Undammed
A decade after the largest dam removal in history—on Washington State’s Elwha River—scientists are chronicling a story of ecological rebirth. Recovering salmon populations are transferring …
DamNation: Tribe to fish for salmon on Elwha River
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 River Runs Through It … Once Again
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 …
Trapped Elwha Steelhead Maintained Genetic Diversity During Isolation
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 …
The Elwha dams are gone and chinook are surging back, but few reach the upper river
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. …