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Entries in elwha river dam removal (16)

Saturday
Oct202012

Lake Mills on the Elwha is almost history

Lake Mills has been steadily dropping since dam removal began on the river in September 2011. But, depending on weather over this weekend, it will be gone by next week. The lake is only about 8 to 10 feet deep at the deepest right now -- down from 180 feet before workers began taking down the 210 foot tall Glines Canyon Dam, now only about 70 feet high.

LINK (via: The Seattle Times)

Monday
Sep242012

What the Elwha restoration looks like

Biologist John McMillan snapped this image of a female Chinook in the Little River, a tributay of the Elwha.

LINK (via:The Seatle Times)

Friday
Jul062012

It's like Field of Dreams," he added. As in, build it, and they will come. Or in this case, un-build it. 

Photo: John McMillan

More on that 35 inch male steelhead spotted by biologist John McMillan and collegue Ray Moses on the Elwha.

The gray ghosts of the Elwha are back: wild steelhead, already spotted beyond the free flowing stretch of river that used to be Elwha Dam, for the first time in a century.

"We saw this really large fish, we hadn't tagged anything like it, it was also in better condition than all the other fish," McMillan said. "We could only conclude it had made it up there on its own.

LINK (via: The Seattle Times)

Friday
Apr202012

Elwha Double Cappuccino

Sediment from the Elwha River flows into the Straight of Juan De Fuca as demolition continues on Glines Canyon Dam.

Glines always held back the majority of sediment, because it is upstream of Elwha Dam. Together the dams trapped sediment that normally would have rinsed down the river over the last 100 years.

LINK (Via:The Seattle Times)

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