Chinook 6055 coho 115 really good 108 it depends on the species but we have a broad range and they're all kids from infants to to basically teenagers seeing the evolution is what its ended up being

in particular in the near shore it's been a dramatic transformation the near shore is a very important bridge between the upland and marine systems and it is a critical link between the two that kind of make both work if you think about the Elwha watershed and marine systems as being a house the nearshore component of it would be the nursery and so it provides this wonderful little oasis of habitat and food and refuge it's a very quiet place in a very tumultuous world I've been working in the near shore I think I started my first conversations about the Elwha near shore where in 1995 so just about the second one years have been due for total for a second one we're actually gonna walk up and around the corner and do a second set just around the corner here we'll see chinook salmon coho steelhead Chum bull trout and all of those are federally listed as being endangered species backporting they are the Elwha dam removals isn't just about pulling dams for fish passage although that's certainly a big part of it it's also about liberating wood and liberating sediment and in the near shore those two elements are what make our beaches they're what make our kelp beds they're what make our eelgrass beds and those habitats are the things that are so critical for the function of the near shore a hundred years of sediment that's been trapped up in the watershed it's roughly the same as eight stadium full of sediment now that the dams are out the visual aspect of it is so dramatic that the near shore has actually become the POE mr. child for the entire dam removal project this is the largest dam removal in the nation and certainly the first of its kind and so nobody knew what was going to happen but the good part is that the ecosystem is going to be restored from this action.