Finding the River: An Environmental History of the Elwha

Index

246 Index A Aldwell, Thomas, 45, 47-48, 50, 5254 , 56-57, 64-65, 84, 86, 89, 134 arrival in Port Angeles, 41 correspondence and negotiations with State Fish Commissioner Leslie Darwin, 70-71 Elwha River claim and dam site, 44 frustrations and problems with dam construction, 57-61 and Olympic Power & Development Company, 49 role in land distribution campaign, 42-43 securing investment capital from Peabody, Houghteling and Company, 51 supervision of successful construction, 63 ark rivers, 212, 214 B Babbitt, Bruce, 161-162 Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 74, 76-77, 81 Baker, Jim, 151 Baraboo River, 187 Barber, Katrine, 105-6 baseline studies, 198 Bath Iron Works, 183-84 Bear Creek, 169-187 Bell, Milo, 115, 128-29 Big Sandy River, 55 Bode, I. T., 106 boosters, Port Angeles hydroelectricity, 44-47, 50, 5354 , 71 meaning of the Elwha River, 213 views of economic benefits of Nature, 37, 41-44 boosters, Walla Walla, 109, 111-13 Boyd, Colleen-Elizabeth, 16, 26, 48 Brannon, Ernest M., 90-91, 94-95, 98 Brooke, Stephen, 181 C camas, 22, 38-39 Cazadero Dam and Power Plant, 55 Chastain, Ron, 158-59 Cheever, Dave, 183 Clackamas Hatchery, 80 Clackamas River, 55, 82 clams, 15, 22, 30, 48, 199 Clean Water Act, 171, 191 Clearwater River, 187 climate change. See global warming Cobb, John, 83 Coeur d’Alene, 55 Columbia River, 57, 81, 138, 158, 161, 165-66, 193-95, 210 concerns over dams’ impacts on salmon, 103-8, 113 criticism of salmon management policies, 123-26 dam construction, 89 effectiveness of hatcheries in the 1920s, 83 efforts to mitigate damage to salmon, 115-23 Indian harvest of salmon, 33 overharvest of salmon, 77-79, 85 studies demonstrating impacts of dams on salmon, 114 Condit Dam, 55 crab, 15, 35, 199 Crawford, John, 65 Crown Zellerbach, 86, 100, 129, 131, 137 D Daishowa America, 137, 147, 150 Darwin, Leslie, 67, 69, 89, 96-99, 112, 137 appointment as Washington State Fish Commissioner, 65-66 early career, 65-66 responses to Elwha Dam, 70-71, 84, 86 Index 247 Darwin, Leslie (continued) support of salmon hatcheries, 7173 , 81-82, 84-85 views on role of conservationists, 66-69 deer, 17, 21, 29, 30, 32, 39 Dingell, John, 147-49 Dosewallips River, 29-30 Douglas fir, 9, 19 Dungeness Hatchery, 91, 98 Dungeness River, 25-26, 39 E Earles, Mike, 49, 51-52 Ediz Hook, 18, 36, 48, 89, 152, 199 Edwards Dam, 170-85, 188 Edwards Manufacturing, 173-75, 178-81, 183 eelgrass, 199 Egan, Virginia, 136-37, 150 elk, 9, 16, 21, 25, 39, 212 Elofson, Robert, 131, 202 Elwha Citizens Advisory Committee, 160-64, 192 Elwha Dam, 1-3, 7, 43-44, 52, 56, 70, 84, 86, 89, 92, 94, 97-99, 134-36, 146-48, 151, 153, 15556 , 160, 162, 165-67, 179, 190, 192, 196 blowout of first dam, 61-63 construction of, 56-63 immediate impact on salmon, 63-65 investment for, 53-54 removal, 168, 193, 195-97, 199200 , 203-4, 210, 214 Elwha River, 1-2, 4, 16, 23, 25, 32, 36-39, 44-45, 62-64, 87-88, 102, 105, 127, 133-34, 138-43, 145, 150-51, 153-57, 159, 161-69, 172, 174, 177, 182-83, 188-89, 192-93, 195-97, 199, 201-5, 212-14 benefits to Port Angeles, 46-48, 51, 57 efforts to preserve downstream salmon, 90-94, 96-101, 129-32 historic salmon populations, 3 Leslie Darwin and efforts to preserve salmon, 70-71, 84-86 location and features, 5-11 mismanagement of water releases from dams, 89-90, 95-100, 127-29 salmon ecology, 13-15 use by Lower Elwha Klallam Indians, 16-20, 28, 35 F Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), 131, 136, 147, 152 153, 179 Federal Power Act, 146, 149 Fort Halifax Dam, 185 Friends of the Earth, 136, 140, 146, 151 G Glines Canyon Dam, 1-3, 7, 88, 92, 130, 133, 165, 177, 202 construction of, 88-89 FERC jurisdiction over, 147, 152-53 relicensing of, 146 Glines, George A., 47 global warming, 196, 204-12 Gorton, Slade, 152, 182, 192 and lower Snake River dams and Elwha restoration, 165-66 opposition to dam removal, 15758 , 160-63, 165 gravel recruitment, 165 Gunther, Erna, 20-21, 23-26 H halibut, 17, 22, 35 Hamma Hamma River, 25, 29-30 hatcheries, 71-73, 80, 81-83, 84-85, 91, 98, 123-26, 164, 193, 203 herring, 21, 25, 170, 186, 188 Hirt, Paul, 124 Hoh...