In the early 1900s two dams went up on the Elwha River in Washington’s Olympic Peninsula. They made electricity, but they also blocked salmon from the upper river for about a century. In 1992 Congress passed a law to restore the river. On September 17, 2011, crews began the largest dam removal in U.S. history. The Elwha Dam was gone in about six months, and the Glines Canyon Dam came down in 2014. Today the Elwha flows freely from the mountains to the sea. Some of us have walls built long ago that still block life from flowing. God specializes in taking down what was never meant to stay.
