At the top of the Olympic Peninsula the 72 km long Elwah River rages into the Juan de Fuca strait as one of the latest living laboratories studying what happens when dams get removed from rivers. Seeing the turquoise waters churn in person compared to the humdrum, little, tributary that existed before is inspiring.
For more details on the ecological impacts and improvements from removing the two existing dams, Outside Magazine covers this project’s impacts in their short film below:
https://www.outsideonline.com/2413366/steelhead-fish-return-elwha-river-washington-dam-removal
