Unlike many other dams in the Pacific Northwest, the dams on the Elwha River didn't include any fish passage to help salmon ...

The results from the Elwha River dam removal project in Washington state, which took place from 2011 to 2014, give wildlife experts hope better days are ahead for the species. In less than a ...

A new book from a reporter and photographer at The Seattle Times documents the long and successful battle to remove dams on the Elwha River in Olympic National Park. For more than 25 years, ...

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, foxes and bears roam 800 acres of newly restored land ...

As the dams begin to come down, the National Park Service looks back at the region’s history and prepares for the welcome changes to the ecosystem Explore Subscribe Newsletters Content Licensing ...

Propped up by their ancestors and the recent success of the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe on ... sacred obligation to bring the dams down and restore the river and the salmon that live there.

The agency will evaluate the status and threats for salmon spawning north of the Columbia River and west of the Elwha River, including in the Chehalis ... depleted because of habitat degradation due ...