sierraclub.org - sierra magazine - march/april 2012 - last words
For more than a century, Washington's Elwha Dam blocked chinook salmon in the Elwha River from completing their spawning run upstream. This photo was taken in early September 2011, shortly before workers began to dismantle the structure. | Steve Ringman/Seattle Times
"Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting."
—Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses
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