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In this photo that shows historical pictures of the Anderson Glacier courtesy of the University of Washington, and Larry Workman's modern picture of the same location, the demise of the glacier is clear.

Retreating glaciers adding to fish woes on Quinault River

In this photo that shows historical pictures of the Anderson Glacier courtesy of the University of Washington, and Larry Workman's modern picture of the same location, the demise of the glacier is clear.
Glaciers that feed the Queets and Quinault Rivers are just fractions of the size they were a few decades ago. As they recede, they threaten salmon stocks important to the Quinault Indian Nation.

“These glaciers once provided large amounts of cold water, year-round, that maintained higher summer flows, “ said Tyler Jurasin, QIN operations section manager. Lower flows mean less habitat for spring/summer chinook runs in the Queets and Quinault rivers on the Olympic Peninsula, which already face many other threats to their survival.

“In addition to lower summertime flows, we are dealing with a lot of sediment released by the retreat of the Humes and Anderson glaciers,” said Jurasin. (more…)

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