Elwha project manager, estimates it will take 25 to 30 years for the river to return to its natural state
“Almost entirely contained within Washington’s Olympic National Park, the Elwha is untouched aside from the concrete structures that have reduced its wild salmon spawning population from 400,000 to about 3,000. Three of the salmon species native to the river — chinook, steelhead and bull trout — are listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.
