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Make Way for Salmon on the Mashel


The Olympian, September 4, 2006.
Chester Allen
Two tracked excavators rumbled through the diverted, dry streambed of the Mashel River last week and dropped 40-foot trees and refrigerator-size boulders into a massive, muddy hole.
Another disaster for a river that’s taken a lot of punches during the past 100 years? Nope.
The excavators are [...]