High overhead, a new forest rises where just five years ago there was a lake. The former Lake Aldwell is but a memory as the Elwha River and forest reclaim their place. Already, thick terraces of gray ...

One morning in late August, at the peak of an unusually hot summer, I joined a group of scientists on the northern coast of Washington State’s Olympic Peninsula to perform a fish census. We trudged ...

PORT ANGELES — Few people are excited to see a big pile of sand, unless it's a big pile of sand at the mouth of the Elwha River. In a yearlong dam removal and restoration project, scientists observing ...

Ten years ago, demolition began at Elwha Dam on Washington’s Elwha River, in what remains the biggest dam removal and river restoration in history. Since the backhoes and dynamite tore down Elwha Dam ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This story was originally published on MyNorthwest.com. The Super-class ferry Elwha was born in the bustling waters of Puget Sound ...

In this file photo from 2014, a staff member of the National Parks Conservation Association approaches the Highway 101 bridge during a rafting tour of the Elwha River. This area was underwater as part ...

Barnard Construction Co. , Bozeman, Mont., won a $26.9-million contract from the National Park Service to remove the Elwha and Glines Canyon dams on the Elwha River in Washington State’s Olympic ...

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, ...

Editor’s note: The Lewiston Tribune’s Eric Barker recently visited two Northwest rivers, the Elwha and the John Day, to see some dams vs. salmon dynamics in action. PORT ANGELES, Wash. — Mel Elofson ...

Just about two years ago, in August 2014, workers completed the largest dam removal project in the history of the United States. After more than a year of dismantling the 210-foot-high (64-meter-high) ...

A returning chinook salmon swims beneath the spillway, stopped in its trip up the river by the Elwha Dam. Bald eagles at the sediment-starved mouth of the Elwha River. A Washington Department of Fish ...