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Restoring the Elwha River

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The removal of two dams on Washington's Elwha River will be one of the most significant river restoration projects of our time.

Elwha CD-Rom Available

compact discAmerican Rivers, with funding from The Mountaineers Foundation, has created an interactive CD-Rom about the Elwha River dam removal and restoration effort. It's an excellent resource for educators, journalists, and others who wish to learn the story of the Elwha.

For a copy of the CD-Rom, please contact Amy Kober at American Rivers, 206-213-0330 x23.

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Background Information:

Maps & diagrams

Elwha River Photo Gallery

Historic photo of Glines Canyon Dam site
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Timelapse animations & movies

Elwha River restoredUsing special computer modeling software, American Rivers has created 3-D photo-realistic visualizations that depict the Elwha valley before, during, and after dam removal. We have extracted a series of movies and animations from the model landscape to help illustrate how the reservoirs will drain, how vegetation will return, and the Elwha River ecosystem will be restored.

View the visualizations

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News and updates

** Visit the Elwha River blog for news and commentary **

Removal of dams a boon, Chamber told (Peninsula Daily News, August 15, 2006) -- PDF

Carefully deconstructing dams in Washington State (NPR, November 30, 2005)

NSF Grants Fund Unique Ecological Studies on Removal of Elwha River Dams (April 26, 2005)

Elwha dam removal gets final go-ahead (Seattle Times, August 8, 2004)

River of Dreams (High Country News, September 24, 2001)

Explore the Elwha

Watch a video about the Elwha, produced by Earth Tribe TV

Take a driving tour of the Elwha River and its dams -- Click here for the brochure (PDF)

Watch the film Unconquering the Last Frontier by Robert Lundahl

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