Return of the Kings on the Elwha

Spawning king salmon have been sighted twice upriver from the former dam sites on the newly free Elwha River on the Olympic Peninsula. photo courtesy U.S. Geological Survey

By their very nature, dam-removal projects require a certain amount of faith. Fisheries biologists can guess how fish stocks will react to freed sections of river, but no one really knows if the fish will come back—especially if they have been gone for almost a century. The recent destruction of two dams on Washington's Elwha River is a case in point. But in this situation, it seems that, if biologists' predictions were wrong, it's that they. . .

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