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Removing the Elwah River Dams Timelapse

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This is such an awesome sight…the two dams on Washington’s Elwah River coming down. The project is especially cool because the watershed above the old reservoirs is in Olympic National Park…and is thus protected and pristine.

Over the past couple seasons, salmon and steelhead habe neen repopulating the upper reaches of the drainage!

After Dam Removal: Wild Steelhead Returning to Washington’s Elwah River!

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The River running free again!

You just have to give Mother Nature a chance…after 108-foot high Elwah Dam was removed from Washington’s Elwah River last September, biologists are already finding wild steelhead spawning above the old dam site!

Even more exciting is the fact that the other dam on the river, Glines Canyon Dam (upstream 8 miles) is in the process of being removed as well. Once that barrier is taken down, salmon and steelhead will have full access to the river and her tributaries — much of which lies in pristine condition in Olympic National Park!

Read the entire story at the LA TIMES