| Just to the west of Port
Angeles lies the Elwha River valley. Here two dams were built in the early
1900s. This is the Elwha dam which is 108ft high and generated 26MW of
electricity. |  |
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Over the next three years at a cost of $350 million, the dams will be
removed and the salmon will once again be able to swim up the 70 miles of
river in the Olympic national park. |
| We camped at a site in
the valley most of which is First Nations land. Much of the area is
untouched forest. |  |
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Away from the trails the area is impassable with many generations of fallen
trees. |
| It is difficult to grasp
how difficult traversing this country is off the trails.. |  |
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Heavy machinery is being used to demolish the dams. Here two caterpillar
diggers are carrying what looked to be a flatbed railroad car the half mile
to the dam. |
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