LAKE MILLS, Wash. (AP) - Work is underway to prepare for the removal of two dams on the Olympic Peninsula's Elwha River. Crews with Cherokee Construction Services of Vancouver, Wash., last week began ...

Officials say the U.S. Highway 101 bridge over the Elwha River could need replacement or retrofitting now that two dams have been removed. The Peninsula Daily News reports that the now-wild river is ...

PORT ANGELES — Beavers are helping to restore the Elwha River. That’s one fact Dr. Anne Shaffer, Coastal Watershed Institute executive director and lead scientist, shared with the Port Angeles Kiwanis ...

In August 2024, the Klamath River in Northern California flowed freely for the first time in over a century. The world’s ...

PORT ANGELES — You can watch the historic piece-by-piece removal of the Elwha and Glines Canyon dams — and the effects on the Elwha River — over the next three years from a variety of places. Prime ...

PORT ANGELES — The state Department of Transportation plans to remove the old U.S. Highway 101 bridge across the Elwha River beginning July 15. The bridge, which was being undermined by the river ...

The Elwha River in Washington State has been dammed for over a century. Because of the dams, salmon populations have declined dramatically, but starting in 2011 the dams are being removed and Elofson ...

A fuel spill near Olympic National Park could result in a setback for salmon restoration efforts in the Elwha River, and it could take some time before experts know the full extent of the ecological ...

Dear EarthTalk: How is it that dams actually hurt rivers? Missy Davenport Boulder, Colo. Advertisement Article continues below this ad Dams are a symbol of human ingenuity and engineering prowess -- ...