Nathan Schaeffer
5/22/2015
Natural Resources

Elwha River



The Elwha River has always been a great place to go ever sense I was little and I love that they aim to restore migrating fish which aims to re-establish the populations of native fish that thrived in the Elwha River before the dams were build. Over the 20 to 30 years following the dam removal, biologists predict that populations of migrating stocks of fish will rebound to historic numbers.
The restoration strategies developed for each Elwha salmon are intended to be adaptive and flexible, and may change based on how the fish populations respond. If one strategy proves to be unsuccessful, biologists will use another in order to produce a healthy, naturally spawning population. Which means in the end the Salmon and other native fish and non native will be in record numbers and flourishing just like before the dams were put up and before we took them down.