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Greenwire: Starting today, the National Park Service will begin the largest dam removal project in U.S. history as part of a sweeping effort to restore the Elwha River that runs through Washington's Olympic National Park. The Elwha and Glines Canyon hydroelectric dams, built in 1913 and 1927, respectively, supplied electricity for nearly a century to thousands of Pacific Northwest residents. But the dams also severed Pacific salmon migration routes that were once among the country's most robust. Prior to......
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Long-Awaited Freedom Comes to Olympia NP’s Elwha River
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on September 15th, 2011
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