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Kayaking on the Olympic Peninsula includes everything from snow-melt rivers to peaceful mountain lakes, from the Strait of Juan de Fuca, to the slow flowing tide of Hood Canal. This guide includes ...
LAST SATURDAY’S STORM and its rainfall were enough to ease drought-related closures and reopen many North Olympic Peninsula rivers for recreational fishing. The lower sections of the Sol Duc, Calawah, ...
The unleashing of the Olympic Peninsula’s Elwha River from two dams presents Washingtonians with a not-to-be-missed opportunity to witness the transformation wrought by the world’s largest dam ...
River fishing has been better this week than the past couple of weeks. While most southwest Washington rivers have been producing only fair catches of steelhead, fishing on the Olympic Peninsula ...
The protest, near Olympic National Park in Washington state, is part of a growing movement aimed at saving decades-old trees ...
At the north end of the Olympic Peninsula, trucks carrying massive trees rumble through the town of Port Angeles. Humans here have dramatically altered the old-growth forests that ring the snowy ...
Advocates for the Wild Olympics campaign have canvassed the Olympic Peninsula for years to secure federal protections for 19 rivers and 126,661 acres of land.
The final chunks of concrete are expected to fall this September in the nation's largest dam-removal project, but nature is already reclaiming the Elwha River on Washington's Olympic Peninsula.
Wild-stock steelhead are the featured attraction this time of year on the Olympic Peninsula rivers, and checks over the weekend by state personnel showed good fishing in a number of areas.
Perhaps just as importantly, the generous rains the peninsula is known for raises river flows repeatedly each winter -- this winter being an exception -- to such high levels that fishing becomes ...
It’s been over a decade since two dams came out of the Elwha River on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula. Now, salmon are returning, cougars, elk, foxes and bears roam 800 acres of newly restored ...
LAST SATURDAY’S STORM and subsequent rainfall were enough to ease drought-related closures and reopen many North Olympic Peninsula rivers for recreational fishing. The lower sections of the Sol Duc, ...