All photographs and text Copyright Stanley Greenberg.

Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Elwha River, 2010-2014



The Elwha and Glines Canyon dams, on the Elwha River in Washington, were built at the beginning of the 20th century, without permit, by a paper company.  After many years of activism on the part of local environmentalists and the Elwha Klallam Indians, the federal government agreed to remove the dams.  The dams have now been removed, and the salmon have returned to spawn.  Thousands of seedlings have been planted to help speed the restoration of the local ecosystem.  It will be many decades before the area returns to something resembling its previous state.

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