Hundreds of thousands of salmon are returning to the Elwha River after the U.S. dismantled two fish passage dams built in 1913 and 1927 that reduced migration from “hundreds of thousands” to just a few thousand per year; the project is controversial, seems like a last resort, and could reshape river restoration
After nearly a century of being blocked, fish and salmon are once again migrating up the Elwha River:…