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Saturday, September 17, 2011

The Elwha: Travel a river being reborn

Using shovels, interns for the National Park Service work on moving gravel and cobble in the Elwha River in May 2011 during a hike with scientists to investigate how the river was responding to the pilot channel cut the previous fall. Sediment experts from the Bureau of Reclamation were encouraged that the river had largely been directed to a central channel.