PORT ANGELES — Olympic National Park crews have completed a temporary foot trail into the Elwha Valley that bypasses the washed-out area of Olympic Hot Springs Road and provides an interim pedestrian ...

They’ve been snatched from the air with hand-held nets and scooped from the waters of the Elwha River. Now, between 600,000 and 2 million individual insects and certain plants collected from the Elwha ...

PORT ANGELES — Local government and tribal officials opened a new road Tuesday west of Port Angeles to the Lower Elwha Klallam reservation. The federal government paid $9 million for the ...

Frog Taxi, Rewilding the Elwha River, From Shrubsteppe to Space: Searching for Black Holes. Red-legged frogs cross a busy Portland highway with help from the “Frog Taxi ; Lower Elwha Klammal tribe ...

Want a hike with historic significance? Want a hike along a beautiful river? The lower portion of the Elwha River Trail is your hike. A loop is recommended for a nice family outing. The trail is ...

A helicopter team from Naval Air Station Whidbey Island was called in to airlift an injured backpacker out of the Elwha Valley Wednesday morning. Olympic National Park fisheries crew at work in the ...

Update at 4:01 p.m.: Below is a description from Olympic National Park staff of what happened to hiker Kelly Hall, a 64-year-old from Bainbridge Island: “Kelly Hall, who had been missing for nearly ...

It started as a glacier. Then, about 13,000 years ago, it was a trickle, then a stream, and eventually a rushing river meandering through the Olympic Peninsula. For thousands of years, life thrived ...

Ten years ago, demolition began at Elwha Dam on Washington’s Elwha River, in what remains the biggest dam removal and river restoration in history. Since the backhoes and dynamite tore down Elwha Dam ...

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. The Elwha has been cut off from its source ...

When this photo was taken in 2020, about 3 million cubic yards of sediment had been flushed down the Elwha River since dam removal began in 2011. That’s only 16% of what’s expected to move downstream ...

For about a century, the Elwha River in Northwest Washington was broken up by two dams, to generate power to Port Angeles. The Elwha Dam was removed in 2012 and the Glines Canyon Dam was removed in ...