Ten years ago, demolition began at Elwha Dam on Washington’s Elwha River, in what remains the biggest dam removal and river restoration in history. Since the backhoes and dynamite tore down Elwha Dam ...

Nearly a decade after the last Elwha River dam came down, the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe could see its first fishery on the river in years. The tribe, Olympic National Park and the Washington ...

At the north end of the Olympic Peninsula, trucks carrying massive trees rumble through the City of Port Angeles. Humans here have dramatically altered the old-growth forests that ring the snowy peaks ...

A returning chinook salmon swims beneath the spillway, stopped in its trip up the river by the Elwha Dam. Bald eagles at the sediment-starved mouth of the Elwha River. A Washington Department of Fish ...

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 started as a glacier. Then, about 13,000 years ago, it was a trickle, then a stream, and eventually a rushing river meandering through the Olympic Peninsula. For thousands of years, life thrived ...

For about a century, the Elwha River in Northwest Washington was broken up by two dams, to generate power to Port Angeles. The Elwha Dam was removed in 2012 and the Glines Canyon Dam was removed in ...

ELWHA RIVER — With the plonk of fishing tackle in clear, green water, the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe’s first fishery on a free-flowing river in more than a century got underway. “I am so proud of my ...

When this photo was taken in 2020, about 3 million cubic yards of sediment had been flushed down the Elwha River since dam removal began in 2011. That’s only 16% of what’s expected to move downstream ...