#251273 - 08/06/04 12:40 PM
Elwha Dam update
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Smolt
Registered: 01/25/04
Posts: 99
Loc: Everett, WA
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Good news...Final agreement signing to allow a wrong.....righted! http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2001998230_elwha06m.html I hope this project can finally proceed and everything goes according to plan. How long after the concrete is gone would you think the "new river" will be a fishable one? Ten years, 15, 20? Hope I live long enough to fish the upper flows with my boy some day! 
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#251274 - 08/06/04 12:52 PM
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Returning Adult
Registered: 12/09/03
Posts: 399
Loc: Seattle
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This is great news. Actually I am really surprised that this is going forward. I thought politics would stall this forever.
Atlantic salmon returned to some smaller rivers where dams were removed within five years. There are a lot of great places to fish up the Elwha. Can't wait.
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#251275 - 08/06/04 01:45 PM
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Reverend Tarpones
Registered: 10/09/02
Posts: 8379
Loc: West Duvall
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This has been a loooong time coming. Great news. Proof that we can make a difference if we keep on keeping on.
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#251276 - 08/06/04 03:21 PM
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Spawner
Registered: 03/22/03
Posts: 860
Loc: Puyallup, WA
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Glad I'm young enough that I wil be able to fish it when the fishing gets good, hopefully.
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#251277 - 08/06/04 03:38 PM
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Repeat Spawner
Registered: 03/30/02
Posts: 1395
Loc: Lake Stevens
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Great news!! Its about time.
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#251280 - 08/06/04 11:51 PM
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Returning Adult
Registered: 01/26/02
Posts: 301
Loc: everett,wa
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What good will removing the dam do? Less than a quater mile upstream there were falls impassible to fish.
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#251281 - 08/07/04 12:31 AM
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Smolt
Registered: 01/25/04
Posts: 99
Loc: Everett, WA
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skydriftin - "Less than a quarter mile upstream there were falls impassible to fish." I've never heard that one. I don't really think a project of this magnitude and importance would be considered if that was the case. In everything I've read they talk about 70 miles of river which will be opened up to salmon and steelhead to spawn. More info: http://www.nps.gov/olym/issues/isselwha2.htm
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#251282 - 08/07/04 12:41 AM
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Smolt
Registered: 01/25/04
Posts: 99
Loc: Everett, WA
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This link should work also: http://nps.gov/olym/elwha/home.htm The more I read about this the happier I am these barriers will one day be gone. 
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#251283 - 08/07/04 01:44 PM
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Returning Adult
Registered: 11/24/00
Posts: 377
Loc: The Terrace
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If any of you have read Mountain in the clouds ,you may recall that before the dams were built that a bank survey was conducted by a biologist that recorded a Chinook karkus over 72 inches in length.
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#251284 - 08/08/04 08:03 PM
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Carcass
Registered: 10/31/02
Posts: 2449
Loc: Portland
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Unfortunately those genetics are gone forever. We could learn something from that I think.....but its higly unlikely.
Remember how Slade Gorton stonewalled this effort for ten years? Remember his party affiliation?
I won't be counting any chickens on this one until I see some stuff blowing up.
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