Elwha: A River Reborn
Author Talk & Book Signing with Lynda Mapes
May 30 Cotton Building, Port Townsend, 7PM, doors open at 6:45PM
Journey into the Northwest’s legendary Elwha River Valley to discover the people, places, and history behind the world’s largest dam removal project, an unprecedented bet on the power of nature.
Running forty-five miles from mountain headwaters to its mouth on the Strait of Juan de Fuca, the Olympic Peninsula’s Elwha River Valley has been many things to many people over the past century—a power source for pioneer towns, a favored jaunt for national conservation luminaries like Robert F. Kennedy and Justice William O. Douglas, an area for Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe members to sustain a fish hatchery, a playground for steelhead enthusiasts. Once legendary for its wild salmon runs and Chinook weighing over 100 pounds, today the Elwha is being dramatically restored as the biggest dam removal project anywhere in the world is well underway.
Sponsored by the Port Townsend Public Library and the North Olympic Group Sierra Club
For information contact: Peter Guerrero 510-421-1071
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