PORT ANGELES, Wash. (AP) - A long-delayed project to remove two dams on the Olympic Peninsula's Elwha River received official approval as members of the Lower Elwha Klallam tribe joined the city and ...
Officials say the U.S. Highway 101 bridge over the Elwha River could need replacement or retrofitting now that two dams have been removed. The Peninsula Daily News reports that the now-wild river is ...
PORT ANGELES — You can watch the historic piece-by-piece removal of the Elwha and Glines Canyon dams — and the effects on the Elwha River — over the next three years from a variety of places. Prime ...
Washington Public Lands Commissioner Dave Upthegrove defended his decision to pause some timber sales and said he will seek ...
Biologists have said it will take at least a generation for the river to recover, but within months of the dams' removal, salmon already started recolonizing sections of the waterway long closed off ...
A fuel spill near Olympic National Park could result in a setback for salmon restoration efforts in the Elwha River, and it could take some time before experts know the full extent of the ecological ...
Dear EarthTalk: How is it that dams actually hurt rivers? Missy Davenport Boulder, Colo. Advertisement Article continues below this ad Dams are a symbol of human ingenuity and engineering prowess -- ...