LAKE MILLS, Wash. (AP) - Work is underway to prepare for the removal of two dams on the Olympic Peninsula's Elwha River. Crews with Cherokee Construction Services of Vancouver, Wash., last week began ...
The biggest dam removal project in history is scheduled to begin next month on the Elwha River. Experts say it should revitalize salmon runs, while the sediment built up behind the dam will act like a ...
After more than a century, a Native American tribe in northern Washington can finally fish for coho salmon in the same rivers as its ancestors, the Seattle Times reported — and it's all thanks to the ...
Witness the Elwha River’s recovery 12 years after dam removal. 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, ...
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, and the ...
PORT ANGELES — The state Department of Transportation plans to remove the old U.S. Highway 101 bridge across the Elwha River beginning July 15. The bridge, which was being undermined by the river ...
In the University’s St. Anthony Falls Laboratory lies a 30-foot scale model of Washington’s Elwha River. The mini river, built of wood, sand, concrete and Mississippi River water, flows to its dam as ...