UNDAMMING THE ELWHA

• June 18, 2012

Friday, June 22 at 8:30 p.m.

It begins as a glacier…then a trickle. The Elwha builds into a swift river, rushing through the temperate rain forests of Olympic National Park. For the last 100 years, two hydroelectric dams have blocked this river and severed its migrating salmon from many miles of prime spawning habitat upstream. The Elwha’s salmon have all but disappeared. Now, the dams are coming down in the largest dam removal project ever attempted and the second-largest environmental restoration effort in U.S. history. What happens here could decide the fate of future restoration projects around the country and the world.