Maybe Lady Gaga is available that day?

The National Park Service invited Jon Bon Jovi and Neil Young to perform at a September event marking the Elwha Dam removal project. No harm extending an invite right? I mean who wants listen to a bunch of politicians drone on and on about restoring the Elwah when you could be rocking out to Living on a Prayer or Cinnamon Girl.

Bon Jovi declined and Neil's people have yet to respond.

LINK (Via: The Seattle Times)

“The generators may be powering down, but the river is about to power up.”

                          Kevin Yancy, the power plant’s foreman

A major milestone on the Elwah.

Today federal workers will shut off the turbines on the two Elwah River dams and set in motion the largest dam removal project in U.S. history

LINK (Via: The News Tribune)

Contract to remove Elwha dams goes to Montana firm

Another milestone has been reached towards the removal of the two dams on the Elwah and restoration of it's once vibrant runs of salmon and steelhead

After decades of talking about it, the feds finally signed a contract Thursday to take down two dams on the Elwha River in the largest such project ever in North America.

The goal is to restore the Elwha River ecosystem, especially its fabled salmon fisheries, choked off by two dams for nearly a century. The takedown of the dams will take about three years to complete. The first concrete will come out of the dams beginning just about a year from now, in September 2011.

LINK (Via: The Seattle Times)

Jay, you know those are like unicorns, they don't exist

Tales of 100 pound salmon helped fuel the effort to take down two dams on Washington's Elwah River. The question is, did the Elwah's salmon really grow that big and will they return?

LINK (Via: Peninsula Daily)