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A monstrous tongue of water spills over what’s left of the Glines Canyon Dam in Olympic National Park as the Elwha River nears its freedom for the first time in a century. Photo by Nick Wolcott An Elwha River chinook comes to rest below the now removed Elwha Dam on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula [fall 2011]. Photo by Ben Knight The breaching of the Sunbeam Dam on Idaho’s Salmon River in 1934 has a foggy history, but whatever happened, it’s one of our nation’s first examples of a critical river restoration. Photo by Ben Knight Author David James Duncan [<i>The River Why</i>, <i>The Brothers K,</i>] about to get in the hot seat for a DamNation interview. Photo by Ben Knight Wildly controversial, a November 2012 ballot initiative that aims to study the potential removal of the O’Shaughnessy Dam in Yosemite’s Hetch Hetchy Valley will be in the hands of San Francisco voters. Photo by Jim Hurst Back to the future? A century old I.W. Taber photograph shows the beautiful Hetch Hetchy Valley and Toulumne River before the dam and reservoir buried this national treasure. Photo by Matt Stoecker Ben Knight sets up to film on the Sol Duc River, on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula. Photo by Travis Rummel Massive amphitheater-like steps of the Copco 1 Dam tower over California’s Klamath River. Photo by Ben Knight A wild salmon launches six feet out of the Sol Duc River on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula to reach spawning grounds upstream.</br> Photo by Travis Rummel A Native American dip netter patiently awaits a jumper on the Klickitat River in SE Washington. Photo by Ben Knight Glines Canyon Dam, Olympic Peninsula, WA. Photo by Ben Knight An excavator arm fitted with a hydraulic hammer begins chipping away at the Glines Canyon Dam in Olympic National Park as the Elwha River free falls 210 feet off the spillway [fall 2011]. Photo by Ben Knight Travis Rummel preps the camera at the Copco 1 Dam—one of four that block California’s Klamath River. Photo by Ben Knight Washington’s Elwha Dam as seen in 2011 before its removal. Photo by Travis Rummel Ben Knight films inside the nearly century old Elwha Dam powerhouse before its deconstruction. Photo by Travis Rummel Warm evening light bathes the Elwha on a bend below Olympic National Park. Photo by Travis Rummel DamNation producer and underwater photographer Matt Stoecker emerges from the icy tail waters below the former Elwha Dam. Photo by Ben Knight Kevin Yancy of the Bureau of Reclamation gets in the DamNation hot seat among a wall of aging gauges inside the Glines Canyon Dam powerhouse. Photo by Ben Knight Ben Knight films the control panel deep inside the Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia River. Photo by Travis Rummel Ben Knight makes pictures of Washington’s massive Grand Coulee Dam, the largest power producing facility in the United States. [No fish passage] Photo by Travis Rummel Travis Rummel stands on a beautifully preserved old growth cedar stump that was revealed after being submerged nearly a century under Washington's 'Lake' Aldwell. The Elwha River has now re-carved its course through the drained reservoir. Photo by Ben Knight Washington’s Elwha River carves freely through the exposed reservoir upstream of the former Elwha Dam for the first time in over 100 years.</br> Photo by Travis Rummel Ben Knight tries to figure out how the hell a one-button menu works on a GoPro while filming the annual river herring spawn in Maine. </br>Photo by Travis Rummel The abrasive sound of metal on concrete fills a canyon on the White Salmon River as excavators nibble away at Washington’s Condit Dam in June. </b>Photo by Ben Knight Washington’s White Salmon River re-carved its path clean through a century of sediment just a couple months after a hole was blasted through the bottom of Condit Dam. Photo by Travis Rummel Prevented from migrating any further upstream, a spawning pair of pink salmon flirt over a gravel bed a stone’s throw from the now removed Elwha Dam powerhouse. Photo by Matt Stoecker Anonymous street artists painted a 160-foot long dotted line and a 28-foot pair of scissors on the defunct Matilija Dam in Ojai, California in 2011. The dam has been slated for removal for years, but additional studies are being conducted to decide how best to deal with the trapped sediment and downstream water supply. The dam is owned by Ventura County. Photo by Matt Stoecker Iron Gate, the most downstream of four controversial dams strangling the Klamath River. Photo by Matt Stoecker The impassable Matilija Dam looms overhead as endangered steelhead trout realize there is no way home. Photo by Matt Stoecker Annual runs of huge, wild chinook salmon continue to feed the free flowing Skeena River watershed and surrounding communities, British Columbia, Canada. Photo by Matt Stoecker Ocean nutrients, in the form of annual wild steelhead and salmon runs, feed an ecosystem and local economy in Oregon's Umpqua River watershed. Photo by Matt Stoecker Extremely cold water trickles out of the Glen Canyon Dam into what's left of Glen Canyon, forming an unnatural stretch of trout water on the Arizona/Utah border. Photo by Ben Knight The one and only Katie Lee, 93, at her home in Arizona. Katie has spent the majority of her life advocating for the removal of Glen Canyon Dam. </br>Photo by Ben Knight A 1000+ year old piece of pottery salvaged from a Glen Canyon ruin before being drowned by Glen Canyon Dam. Photo by Travis Rummel Trying to blend in with the tourists at a Glen Canyon overlook in Page, Arizona. Photo by Travis Rummel 'Lake' Powell's bathtub ring stains a sandstone bluff in the Escalante River Canyon as a campfire paints a cove around the bend. Photo by Ben Knight Completed in 1966, the 710-foot Glen Canyon Dam has been one of the most controversial water storage/hydro projects in US History. </br>Photo by Ben Knight

Copco 1 Dam, Klamath River, CA

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