The Associated Press posted an update recently about the removal of the Elwha River's two fish-blocking dams, the Elwha and Glines Canyon, and the rapid changes witnessed by the Lower Elwha Klallam…
With thousands of cubic yards of sediment forming new beaches at the mouth of the Elwha River, marine life that’s been missing for decades is showing up again. Before the…
The Sequim Gazette reported that more than 1,700 chinook salmon were found in the Elwha River, between the Glines Canyon Dam and Strait of Juan de Fuca, during a one-day…
Chinook salmon are returning once again to the Elwha River, with the river in its second year of being free of the Elwha Dam. The Glines Canyon Dam is not…
The Peninsula Daily News recently reported on a public presentation by Robert Elofson, the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe's river restoration director, on the latest efforts of the removal of the…
The Peninsula Daily News posted an article announcing that the fish window on the Elwha River has closed earlier than expected, so dam demolition will resume Dec. 19, instead of…
For the first time in nearly a century, the man-made reservoirs behind the Elwha River’s two fish-blocking dams are starting to look like riverbeds once again. The Aldwell and Mills…
The Peninsula Daily News, Seattle Times and Associated Press reported on Wednesday's historic shut down of the Elwha River's two dams, the Elwha and Glines Canyon, in preparation for the…
[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…)