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Lower elwha casino birthday party12/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Several dozen middle schoolers raced to their picnic spot on the weedy banks of the Lake Aldwell reservoir, one of two dammed segments of the Elwha River. I visited the watershed before demolition began, as some of the tribe’s youngest members awaited the river’s transformation. Yet the Lower Elwha Klallam tribe, whose culture is rooted in the river, already feels the project’s impact. The dams will be notched down gradually, over three years, and it will take even longer for fish to return in force. The Elwha has been cut off from its source in the Olympic Mountains for almost a century, and its once rich salmon runs have dwindled to practically nothing. The nation’s largest and most ambitious dam removal will begin this month, when workers start demolishing two antique dams on Washington state’s Elwha River. ![]()
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