Sunday, July 15, 2012

Conservation Biology: Signs of success in Olympic Peninsula river restoration

The Los Angeles Times has an encouraging story of early signs of success in a river restoration in Washington's Olympic Peninsula. After re-establishing access to reaches of the river previously blocked by hydroelectric power dams, and steelhead restocking efforts, biologists have found evidence of wild steelhead presence as well as evidence that fish are reproducing in the river. Full story here.
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