Endangered Spaces--The Elwha River Recovery

The Dirtbag Diaries

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Sports, Wilderness

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🗓️ 10 July 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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After a decades long battle on Washington State’s Elwha River, a coalition of environmentalists, scientists and locals succeeded in having two dams demolished. Six years later, scientists are monitoring the river and larger ecosystem as they recover from a century of abuse. And one of the best ways to do the research? Snorkeling Class III whitewater.

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1:02.5	Alright, Fitz, I want you to close your eyes and imagine this scene. Andrew, I can do that for you.
1:09.7	My eyes are closed, what is up? Actually, open your eyes. Tell me what do you know
1:16.1	about the L.W.River? Not a ton. I mean I know it's on the Olympic Peninsula
1:22.2	in Washington state and it comes out of the Olympic mountains and goes into the Pacific Ocean.
1:28.0	Okay, so yeah, you're on the right track. It is a wild wild river. It's short,
1:33.8	only about 60 miles long and it's steep and fast and violent. The water drains off of
1:40.1	the glaciers in the Olympic mountains that you're mentioning. And those are some of the most
1:45.0	remote and glaciated mountains we have in the lower 48. So it's frigidly cold water,
1:51.5	which gets funneled out of the mountains and into the Olympic rainforest. And in the
1:56.3	process, it becomes the L.W.River. Now, the Olympic rainforest is the only rainforest in the
2:02.6	United States outside of Hawaii. It's wet, cold country that teams with life, bears,
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