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…
The 65-foot dock section that beached within Olympic National Park north of the Hoh River has been cleaned of plant and animal species. You can read more at a special…
The Quileute Tribe concluded a decades-long effort to gain additional land to move the tribal school, tribal council buildings and individual tribal members homes out of the tsunami zone with…
The Quileute Tribe is awaiting word on legislation introduced by U.S. Rep. Norm Dicks, D-Bremerton to finalize a land acquisition detailed in a Seattle Times story here. Meanwhile, President Obama…
The Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe and the National Park Service collaborated recently to study the elk in Olympic National Park.
The park service and the tribe worked with a helicopter crew to capture 18 elk and fit them with radio collars this fall.
The collars will help show biologists the migration patterns of herds within the Elwha River valley and around lakes Aldwell and Mills before and after the removal of the Elwha River’s two dams. The dams will be removed starting in September 2011.
The Hoh Tribe and the Hoh River are connected by a bond that can never be broken. Forever, as the river moved, so did the tribe.
But that came to a stop after treaty times, when the tribe was confined to a 640-acre reservation at the river’s mouth. Over the years the Hoh River has whittled the reservation to about 450 acres and much of the land floods every year.
A study of the river’s migrating main channel shows the Hoh is likely to again come barreling through the tribal center and many homes within the next 25 years. Flooding has already become an annual event in these low-lying areas.
The Hoh Tribe had a choice. Build expensive dikes or other structures – which can protect the riverbank but hurt fish habitat – or move out of harm’s way.
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NEAH BAY — The 18 fishers reintroduced into Olympic National Park (ONP) earlier this year by wildlife biologists were expected to do some roaming. But few expected one of the weasel-like animals to journey nearly 60 miles from its Elwha River watershed release site to the Makah Tribe’s reservation in Neah Bay. Crossing mountains, rivers and busy roads, the fisher reached the Makah Reservation over a period of six months. (more…)
HOH RIVER -- The Hoh Tribe is conducting a study to determine the genetic relationships between today's Hoh River native steelhead and hatchery steelhead. The genetic study will reveal the…
"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."
HOH (June 24, 2002) -- One of the most productive coho streams in the Hoh River system runs next to one of the most popular hiking trails in the world.…