OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK — With easy road access to trails open for the first time in years, and the river valley in full summer splendor, the Elwha beckons as never before. Where once there was a dam, ...
PORT ANGELES — Last chance to take a guided walk on what was once under water behind Elwha Dam. Olympic National Park rangers are leading the summer’s final two walking tours along the Elwha River and ...
A mighty river eats what it wants: So it is with the Elwha River, unleashed from its dams and just finished munching the Olympic Hot Springs Road for the second time. The river flooded Nov. 22 and 23, ...
The Elwha River starts at Dodwell-Rixon Pass, a high crack in Washington’s Olympic Mountains. There, a hiker who crossed would find the Elwha Snowfinger, formed by heavy winter storms and the ...
PORT ANGELES, Wash. - For more than 100 years, two dams controlled the Elwha river on the Olympic Peninsula. The Lower Elwha dam was built in 1910, 17 years later and 8 miles further upstream the ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
The former Glines Canyon Dam is now a tourist attraction at Olympic National Park. The Elwha River runs free through what used to be a 210-foot tall hydropower dam.(Doug MacDonald/Seattle Times/TNS) ...
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