Olympic National Park News

Looking over the edge of the Glines Canyon Dam in February 2012, six months after the dam removal project had started.

Olympic National Park has released its sport fishing regulations for 2013-2014 and announced the closure of recreational fishing in the Hoh River watershed effective immediately.

Sediment will be hauled from the silt-inundated Elwha Water Treatment Plant along the Milwaukee Grade access road beginning today.

Edward S. Curtis was a famous ethnologist and photographer of Native Americans, including the local area, and the American West in general.

Olympic National Park personnel gave City Council members an update on the millions of cubic yards of sediment coursing down the Elwha River at Tuesday's council meeting.

Olympic National Park officials are searching for someone to manage the Log Cabin Resort on the shores of Lake Crescent.

Experienced volunteer trail workers Tom Mix, Jim Fosse and Del Sage, from left, use a rigging, block and pulley system to place an 80-foot log bridge across Little River for an Olympic National Park trail.

Edward S. Curtis was a famous ethnologist and photographer of Native Americans, including the local area, and the American West in general.

Additional repairs are needed for the sediment-clogged Elwha Water Treatment Plant on the Elwha River, and that could push the removal of the remaining 60 feet of Glines Canyon Dam past the initially estimated July 1 resumption date, an Olympic National Park spokeswoman said.

Edward S. Curtis was a famous ethnologist and photographer of Native Americans, including the local area, and the American West in general.

Edward S. Curtis was a famous ethnologist and photographer of Native Americans, including the local area, and the American West in general.

National park, City Hall staffs to meet over water issue PORT ANGELES - Staffs from the city of Port Angeles and Olympic National Park will meet Wednesday to address further the threat that sediment could compromise the city's water supply during the ongoing the Elwha River Restoration Project, Mayor Cherie Kidd said Monday.

The 205-foot ship is operated by Amercican Cruise lines, which specializes in smaller, inland style cruises.

The author of books on the geology of the Olympic Mountains will tell of his experiences mapping the Olympics on Saturday and Sunday, May 5. Rowland Tabor - the author of Guide to the Geology of Olympic National Park, published in 1988, and Geology of Olympic National Park, published in 1975 - will give a presentation at 4 p.m. Saturday at Quimper ... (more)

Edward S. Curtis was a famous ethnologist and photographer of Native Americans, including the local area, and the American West in general.

Special activities will mark the National Junior Ranger Day celebration at the park visitor center from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.

Edward S. Curtis was a famous ethnologist and photographer of Native Americans, including the local area, and the American West in general.