The Seattle Times posted this story about Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe's steelhead broodstock program efforts recently: Tribe reviving wild Elwha steelhead In an effort to keep the wild steelhead in…
LOWER ELWHA – The setup looks complicated. Two tables covered with data sheets, laptops, glass slides, a digital scale and instruments for taking blood samples are set up next to the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe’s hatchery ponds. Steelhead are being pulled from the ponds and weighed, measured, sampled and spawned. Each of nearly a dozen people have a specific job in this organized chaos to help spawn nearly 150 four-year-old steelhead. (more…)
LOWER ELWHA (November 19, 2008) - The Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe's habitat restoration crew is midway through its effort to build 50 engineered logjams on the Elwha River before two…
[display_podcast] PORT ANGELES (October 16, 2008) – There was a sense of urgency when tribal, state and federal biologists recently snorkeled for 5,000 freshwater mussels along the bottom of a 300-foot-long shallow side channel of the Elwha River. A dredge was slated the next day to dig up the side channel as part of construction of the Elwha Water Treatment Facility.
This mussel rescue was part of larger efforts to prepare the Elwha River for the removal of its two fish-blocking dams; the 108-foot-tall Elwha Dam and the 210-foot-tall Glines Canyon Dam will be removed starting in 2012. The new treatment plant will help filter out river sediment that will be released after the dams are removed. (more…)
"The partnerships that are being built both in this process and in our work regarding removal of the Elwha dams and bringing the salmon back has been gratifying," said Frances Charles, chairman of the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe. "It will continue to be important that we be informed when there are camps or artifacts found. Protecting all the resources on these lands and doing no harm is a joint concern. We're grateful that the details of the government-to-government relationship make this partnership work and it will evolve as we listen to one another and move forward."
The Seattle Times led its outdoor sports column on March 2 with the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe's carcass project. From The Times: Almost 100 years ago the Elwha River on…
The Peninsula Daily News reported a major milestone toward removing the two Elwha River dams - the groundbreaking of a water treatment plant. Lower Elwha tribal council member Dennis Sullivan…
The Olympian ran a feature on the removal of the Elwha River dams, including talking with the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe's river restoration director, Robert Elofson.
The Seattle Times reported that the start date for removing the two dams on the Elwha River, the Elwha and Glines Canyon dams, has once again been pushed back. The…
Seattle Times: Native steelhead in the Elwha River are being closely monitored to ensure they stay out of harm's way when two fish-blocking dams are torn down in 2009. In…