{"id":6981,"date":"2012-08-22T02:00:12","date_gmt":"2012-08-22T10:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blitransfer.wpengine.com\/?p=6981"},"modified":"2017-06-21T14:18:45","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T19:18:45","slug":"salmon-return-to-the-elwha-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/2012\/08\/22\/salmon-return-to-the-elwha-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Salmon Return to the Elwha River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bluelivingidea.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Elwha-River.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6982\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/2012\/08\/22\/salmon-return-to-the-elwha-river\/elwha-river-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Elwha-River.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"500,337\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Elwha River\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Elwha River&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Elwha-River-300x202.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Elwha-River.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6982\" title=\"Elwha River\" src=\"http:\/\/bluelivingidea.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Elwha-River.jpg\" alt=\"Elwha River\" width=\"500\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Elwha-River.jpg 500w, https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Elwha-River-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since the <a title=\"Elwha River Restoration\" href=\"http:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/2011\/09\/16\/elwha-river-restoration\/\">Elwha Dam was removed<\/a> less than five months ago, salmon have already been spotted in the newly opened section of the river.<\/p>\n<p>The Elwha and <a title=\"Glines Canyon Dam Removal (Video)\" href=\"http:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/2011\/11\/04\/glines-canyon-dam-removal-video\/\">Glines Canyon Dams<\/a> were both constructed on the Elwha River nearly a century ago. At that time, the river was famous for its salmon fisheries with hundred-pound fish and waters thick with salmon.<\/p>\n<p>Once the dam was put in, the fish had limited room to spawn and the population declined to a few thousands in recent years. The removal of the dams was expected to allow the salmon and other species to recover, but it&#8217;s surprising the recovery is happening so quickly.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Elwha River\" href=\"http:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/cat.mhtml?lang=en&amp;search_source=search_form&amp;version=llv1&amp;anyorall=all&amp;safesearch=1&amp;searchterm=elwha&amp;photos=on&amp;search_group=&amp;horizontal=on&amp;orient=&amp;search_cat=&amp;searchtermx=&amp;photographer_name=&amp;people_gender=&amp;people_age=&amp;people_ethnicity=&amp;people_number=&amp;commercial_ok=&amp;color=&amp;show_color_wheel=1#id=37871245&amp;src=32d7f1a2a6d1ab6fa9af0773ba6f7d2b-1-12\" target=\"_blank\">Elwha River<\/a> photo via Shutterstock<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the Elwha Dam was removed less than five months ago, salmon have already been spotted in the newly opened section of the river.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":6982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[2854,638,740,847,1880],"yst_prominent_words":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Elwha-River.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6981"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6981"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=6981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}