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“I’ve never been to Alaska, but I’ve been told that our rivers here on the Olympic Peninsula, in the continental U.S., are the closest to what you would find in Alaska,” Wilcox sai ...
The unleashing of the Olympic Peninsula river from two dams presents Washingtonians with a not-to-be-missed opportunity to witness the transformation wrought by the world's largest dam-removal ...
As drought conditions intensify on the North Olympic Peninsula, rivers are struggling at record-low flows, and there is no relief in sight for the near future. The seven Olympic Peninsula rivers ...
fishing on the Olympic Peninsula is heating up with good catches of fish happening in the Hoh, Bogachiel and Sol Duc rivers. A few winter steelhead have been caught in the Cowlitz and Kalama rivers.
The final chunks of concrete are expected to fall this September in the nation's largest dam removal project, but nature is already reclaiming the Elwha River on Washington's Olympic Peninsula.
And without that pulse of snow, melting into rivers of the Olympic Peninsula, communities downstream face a long, dry summer. It's tempting to lump all the rivers on the Peninsula into one ...
Then, when jet stream and ocean conditions are right, an atmospheric river roars in from the tropical Pacific and breaks over the Olympic Mountains. The peninsula’s rivers respond raucously.
Except that amid the beauty of the rivers that drain the heart of the Olympic Mountains flows an ... rivers are putting too much pressure on peninsula streams. "We're the only place left where ...
Neah Bay welcome visitors to northwest tip of Washington's Olympic Peninsula Western Rivers Conservancy protects lands in Hoh River Valley on Olympic Peninsula One Square Inch of Silence in ...
It’s been over a decade since two dams came out of the Elwha River on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula. Salmon are returning, cougars, elk, foxes and bears roam 800 acres of newly restored land ...
And no place is more deserving than the magnificent Olympic Peninsula — a crown jewel of Washington’s natural heritage and a place I hold dear having grown up hiking and fishing there.