With the plonk of fishing tackle in clear, green water, the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe's first fishery on a free-flowing river in more than a century got underway. "I am so proud of my tribe today," ...

After decades of waiting for two dams to come down on the Elwha River on Washington State's Olympic Peninsula, and another decade of monitoring salmon populations, the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe (LEKT) ...

After more than a century, a Native American tribe in northern Washington can finally fish for coho salmon in the same rivers as its ancestors, the Seattle Times reported — and it's all thanks to the ...

For centuries the Elwha River on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula supported some of the West Coast’s most impressive salmon runs. The river’s cold waters, fed by alpine glaciers on the surrounding ...

In 1992, Congress passed an Act of law that few outside Washington State took much notice of at the time, yet it would go on to reshape one of the Pacific Northwest's great rivers. According to the ...

ELWHA RIVER, Wash. — With the plonk of fishing tackle in clear, green water, the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe’s first fishery on a free-flowing river in more than a century got underway. “I am so proud ...

In this file photo from 2014, a staff member of the National Parks Conservation Association approaches the Highway 101 bridge during a rafting tour of the Elwha River. This area was underwater as part ...

PORT ANGELES — Fish species on the Elwha River are coming back now that dams that once blocked the river have been removed, but river restoration is still in its infancy, according to Sam Brenkman, ...

The former Glines Canyon Dam is now a tourist attraction at Olympic National Park. The Elwha River runs free through what used to be a 210-foot tall hydropower dam.(Doug MacDonald/Seattle Times/TNS) ...

Witness the Elwha River’s recovery 12 years after dam removal. 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, ...