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[article & link provided by JH. Thanks!]

Fri, 11 Feb 2000

"DAYS ARE NUMBERED FOR FISH-KILLING DAMS ON ELWHA RIVER"
By: Lynda V. Mapes

AT THE MOUTH OF THE ELWHA RIVER, Clallam County --
   "Frank Bennett works his battered skiff in the current, setting a net he
hopes will catch a few steelhead from a river that used to offer them up by
the thousands.
   Two fish-killing dams put a stop to that decades ago.
   But today, the first on-the-ground action toward restoring the Elwha
River will be celebrated by U.S. Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt and
members of Washington's congressional delegation in a ceremony at Glines
Canyon Dam.
   The federal government will pay a title company $29.5 million in
taxpayers' money later this month, and the title company will disburse the
money to Fort James Paper, which owns and operates the dams, and Daishowa
America, which uses the power from the dams to operate a pulp mill.
   The Elwha and Glines Canyon dams have been slowly killing off this river
since 1910. The purchase of the dams is a first step toward restoration of
the river.

  The Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe set recovery in motion 14 years ago by
petitioning the federal government to take out the dams. The tribe's grief
at the decline of the river has grown into a national environmental cause."

>full story/photos at below url=>
http://www.seattletimes.com/news/local/html98/elwa_20000211.html
 

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