Can we be guided by good science and careful monitoring to ensure the success of salmon restoration after the two Elwha Dams are removed? We should be, write guest columnists Jacques White, Michael Schmidt and Lars Mobrand in the Seattle Times.Ensuring fish restoration after the Elwha dams come out
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2016084377_guest02white.html
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We also need to make sure the monitoring and adaptive management occurs DURING dam removal-think Elwha estuary and Elwha bluffs shoreline- and that local scientists and managers currently leading efforts (AGAIN THINK NEARSHORE) are also the ones help, in a leadership role, identify and address priorities incluidng doing work-not just those federal agencies that are better positioned politically to intercept funds.