A fter decades of waiting for two dams to come down on the Elwha River on Washington State's Olympic Peninsula, and another ...

The dam removal project began in 2020 along the Klamath River near the California-Oregon border. The watershed supports one of the largest salmon runs in the country; however, dam construction since ...

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 ...

Section by section, demolition crews are slowly exploding the Elwha River dam Explore Subscribe Newsletters Content Licensing Our Partners Terms of Use © 2025 ...

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 ...

When the Elwha was taken out of service by Washington State Ferries in 2019, a collective sigh of relief could surely be heard across Puget Sound. The super-class ferry, which had space for 2,000 ...

and NPCA has been fighting to protect it for decades — from saving stands of old-growth forest from lumber production during the Second World War to advocating for the largest dam removal in U.S.

This story was originally published on MyNorthwest.com. The Super-class ferry Elwha was born in the bustling waters of Puget Sound. Built in 1967, the Elwha was the last of the four Super-class ...

This is the story of North Wind and Storm Wind, from the Lushootseed-speaking people of Central Puget Sound, told by Roger Fernandes of the Lower Elwha S’Klallam Tribe.