Elwha Dams: Before and After
Filmmaker John Gussman has been doing a fabulous job recording the before and after miracle of the Elwha river restoration effort.
LINK (via:The Seattle Times.
Filmmaker John Gussman has been doing a fabulous job recording the before and after miracle of the Elwha river restoration effort.
LINK (via:The Seattle Times.
John Gussman who is documenting the Elwha Dam removal as part of his film Return of the River, has posted some new video of crews taking down a portion of the Glines Canyon Dam with explosives.
A WILD steelhead sighting on the Elwha above the old Elwha dam site.
Scientists last week discovered the first wild, adult male steelhead — at least 35 inches long — arriving to spawn in the Little River, a tributary upstream from the old Elwha Dam site, where the river now flows free.
LINK (via: The Seattle Times)
If it was not for the efforts of the Wild Steelhead Coalition, the Conservation Angler and the Federation of Fly Fishers Steelhead Committee that wild fish would be getting busy with Chambers Creek hatchery stock.
Buh bye!
The bare ground in the front of the image is all that remains of the former Elwha Dam in Olympic National Park.
LINK (via: The News Tribune)
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)