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Stimulus Funds to Speed Timeline for Elwha Dam Removal - Common Dreams 
commondreams.org | Thu, Apr 23
Common Dreams (press release), ME
Removing the dams will give salmon and steelhead access to 70 miles of pristine habitat in Olympic National Park for the first time in nearly 100 years. Eighty-three percent of the Elwha River lies within the park boundary. ...
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Seattle Times says
(in Dam removals will bring fish back to Elwha river)
Eighty-three percent of the Elwha River lies within the Olympic National Park. The removal of the dams that were built to provide hydroelectric power to Port Angeles will be the largest such removal in the nation's history. Federal, state, and local ...
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Seattle Times says
(in Stimulus money will speed Elwha dam removal)
United States
Olympic National Park, where the dams stand, will get $54 million to accelerate related projects, pushing the start of removal work from 2012 to 2011, the US Interior Department said Wednesday. That's welcome news to the National Park Service, ...
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