Promising Signs of Recovery on Undammed Elwha River
- By Matt Dibble
Native American communities in the Pacific Northwest have led a decades long fight to remove hydroelectric dams that environmentalists say harm the migration of salmon. With the planned demolition of dams on California’s Klamath River, plans for restoring that ecosystem benefit from what has been learned since dams were removed along Washington State’s Elwha River eight years ago. In the last of our four-part series, Matt Dibble visits the Elwha to see how it is recovering.
