This selected bibliography  contains citations for books, articles, government reports, & selected websites available either at the WWU Libraries, via the Summit (Orbis Cascade Alliance), or in full-text online. 

Publications (Call numbers indicate where the material can be found in Western Libraries)

Books, Conference Proceedings, Videos, etc.

Bullfrog Films.  "Unconquering the last frontier" (Elwha River Dams).  video  GB1227.E45 U54 2002 

" Dam removal: science and decision making."  Washington, D.C. : H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment, 2002, 236 pages. (online)

Doyle, Martin W., Jon M. Harbor, & Emily H. Stanley.  "Dam removal: physical, biological, & societal considerations."  American Society of Civil Engineers Joint Conference on Water Resources Engineering and Water Resources Planning and Management, Minneapolis, MN, July 30 – August 2, 2000.  (online)

Graf, William L.  ed.  Dam removal research: status and prospects: proceedings of the Heinz Center's Dam Removal Research Workshop, October 23-24, 2002.  Washington, D.C. : H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment, 2003.
 

Grossman, Elizabeth.  "Watershed: the undamming of America."  New York: Counterpoint, 2002.  Available through Summit (Orbis Cascade Alliance).

Howe, Sharon M.  "Salmon swimming through the wires: dams, fish and hatcheries on Puget Sound, 1898-1921. " Thesis (M.A.)--Western Washington University, 1998.  Oversize  LD5778.9 .H7887

Lane, N.  Dam Removal: Issues, Considerations, and Controversies.  CRS Report for Congress, Congressional Research Service, Washington D.C..  June 19, 2006. 17 pgs.

Middleton, Beth.  Wetland restoration, flood pulsing, and disturbance dynamics.  New York: J. Wiley, 1999.  Available to WWU through Summit (Orbis Cascade Alliance)
 

Munn, M.D. et al.; prepared in cooperation with the Lower Elwha Tribe and National Park Service. U.S. Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey.  "An assessment of stream habitat and nutrients in the Elwha River basin: implications for restoration.  Water-resources investigations report ; 98-4223."   Tacoma, Wash. : U.S. Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey ; Denver, Colo. : Branch of Information Services [distributor], 1999.  GB701 .W375 1998 no. 4223.

Shaffer, J. Anne, L. Ward, P. Crain, B. Winter, et al. Elwha and Glines Canyon dam removals: nearshore restoration and salmon recovery of. the central Strait of Juan de Fuca.
Proceedings of the 2005 Puget Sound Georgia Basin Research Conference.  Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife; Port Angeles, Washington.

Shreiner, E. & Brian Winter.  RESTORATION OF THE ELWHA RIVER ECOSYSTEM RESULTS OF A BIOLOGICAL MONITORING/RESEARCH WORKSHOP: March 18-19, 2003.  U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, Olympic Field Station Port Angeles, WA.

Westjohn, D.B.  "Stratigraphy, sedimentology, and volume of sediments behind a dam relic on the Muskegon River, Big Rapids, Michigan.  Water-resources investigations report 97-4069."   Lansing, Mich. : U.S. Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey ; Denver, CO : Branch of Information Services [distributor], 1997 GB701 .W375 1997 no. 4069 

Government Documents

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. " Lower Snake River juvenile salmon migration feasibility study:"

"Draft feasibility report/environmental impact statement."    Docs. D 103.501:Sn 1X

"Final feasibility report/environmental impact statement."   Docs. D 103.501:Sa 3x/final/

"Improving salmon passage [electronic resource] "  Docs. D 103.501:Sa 3x/final/cd

"Improving salmon passage : summary."  Docs. D 103.501:Sa 3x/final/summ.

"Information Sheets : final"

U.S. Congress.  House of  Representatives.  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. "Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment  H.R. 728, the Small Watershed Rehabilitation Amendments of 1999, and the Natural Resources Conservation Service's Small Watershed Program : hearing."   Docs. Y 4.T 68/2:106-40

U.S.  Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. "Subcommittee on Water and Power.  Mountain Park Project, Elwha River amendments, and Recreation Management Act amendments : hearing before the Subcommittee on Water and Power of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, second session, on S. 2253 to modify the Mountain Park Project in Oklahoma ... S. 2262 to amend the Elwha River Ecosystem and Fisheries Restoration Act to provide greater flexibility in the expenditure of funds ... S. 2266 to amend the Recreation Management Act of 1992, and for other purposes, July 8, 1994."  U.S. G.P.O., Supt. of Docs., Congressional Sales Office, 1995.    Docs. Y 4.EN 2:S.HRG.103-926

U.S. Department of Interior, Bureau of Reclamation.  Erosion & sedimentation manual; Timothy J. Randle and Blair Greimann,  Chapter 8-Dam Decommissioning and Sediment Management.

U.S. Department of Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, Pacific Northwest Region, Boise, Idaho.  "Sediment Analysis and Modeling of the River Erosion Alternative".   Elwha River Restoration Project, Washington.  Elwha Technical Series, PN-95-9, 1996.

U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service. "Elwha River ecosystem restoration implementation: Olympic National Park, Washington: draft environmental impact statement."    Docs. I 1.98:EL 8/4/DRAFT

U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service. "Elwha River ecosystem restoration: Olympic National Park, Washington: final environmental impact statement."   
Gov. Info  Microfiche  I 1.98:EL 8/3/FINAL

U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, et al.  "The Elwha report : restoration of the Elwha River ecosystem & native anadromous
fisheries: a report submitted pursuant to Public Law 102-495."   Washington, D.C.: U.S. G.P.O., 1994.   Docs.  I 29.2:EL 8/994 ; Gov. Info Microfiche  I 29.2:EL 8/994 EXEC.SUM.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.  "Pre-dam removal studies of Goldsborough Creek, Shelton, Washington."  Lacey, Wash. : U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, North Pacific Coast Ecoregion, Western Washington Office, Aquatic Resources Division, 1999.   Gov. Info microfiche  I 49.2:G 57.

See also: U.S. Corps. of Army Engineers.  "Goldsborough Creek diversion plan, spawning surveys, & final draft."

U.S. General Accounting Office.  "Army Corps of Engineers: an assessment of the draft environmental impact statement of the Lower Snake River dams: report to Congressional requesters."  Docs. GA 1.13:RCED-00-186

U.S.  General Accounting Office.  United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. "Hydroelectric dams: Interior favors removing Elwha River Dams, but who should pay is undecided: report to the Chairman, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives."   Washington, D.C. : U.S. General Accounting Office, 1992.   Docs. GA 1.13:RCED-92-168.

U.S. Geological Survey.  "Assessment of hydraulic changes associated with removal of Cascade Dam, Merced River, Yosemite Valley, California." U.S. Geological Survey open-file report ; 88-733.  Gov. Info Microfiche I 19.76:88-733 

U. S. National Park Service.  "Elwha River ecosystem restoration implementation: final environmental impact statement, Olympic National Park, Washington." Denver, CO: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, Denver Service Center, 1996.  Docs.  I 1.98:EL 8/4/996/final; & online

U.S. National Park Services.  "Elwha River Ecosystem Restoration Project" ;  "Elwha Ecosystem Restoration"  (online) 

Site includes public documents & SEIS files, photographs, timeline & history, & provides additional  links.

U.S. National Park Services. U.S. Dept. of the Interior.  Elwha River Ecosystem Restoration Implementation.  December 2004, 284 pages.

U. S. National Park Service, prepared by Foster Wheeler Environmental Corporation.  "Environmental assessment for the interim management plan: Elwha River ecosystem restoration."  Bellevue, Wash., 2000.  Docs.  I 29.79/5:EL 8x c.2;  also online

U. S.. National Park Service, prepared by Foster Wheeler Environmental Corporation.  "Environmental assessment for the interim management plan of the Old Elwha Resort site Elwa River ecosystem restoration."  Bellevue, WA:  2002.  Docs.  I 1.98:EL 8/5X/ ;  I 1.98:EL 8/5X/ finding.

U.S. Natural Resources Conservation Service.  "Understanding community attitudes about aging dams : a guidebook for accessing local community interest. "
 Docs.  A 57.6/2:C 73/2

Websites
 

Academy of Natural Sciences.  Manatawny Creek: Ecological Studies of Dam removal.

American Rivers. 

Dam Removal;

Elwha Dam Removal - Restoring the Elwha River.  Includes case studies, resource materials, pictures, fact sheets, and other resources featuring rivers throughout the United States.
The Ecology of Dam Removal: a summary of benefits and impacts (.pdf)  Feb. 2002

Clearinghouse for Dam Removal Information

 Includes links to Web pages, multiple case studies, individual case studies, & issues.

Dams of the Pacific Northwest   (Evergreen State College)

Provides a brief overview of dams with resources on:  Washington Dams, Dams in the Pacific Northwest, Dam Safety,  History, Resources, & Government Docs.

Graf,William L., ed.  Dam removal research: status and prospects: proceedings of the Heinz Center's Dam Removal Research Workshop, October 23-24, 2002

H. John Heinz III.  Dam removal: science and decision making.  Center for Science, Economics and the Environment, Washington, D.C. , 2002

International Rivers Network.  Dam Removal: The US Experience.

National Park Service. Cascades Diversion Dam Removal Project.  Environmental Assessment, Merced River, Yosemite.

"Cascades Diversion Dam Removal Project Environmental Assessment is intended to guide the removal of Cascades Diversion Dam. The project and its environmental assessment, which evaluates the potential impacts of the project, are integrated in this document. "

Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy ( DOE ). Wind and Hydropower Technologies Program
 

Stanley, Emily.  Small Dam Removal: Geomorphological and Ecological Change

U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.  Elwha River Dam Removal Study

World Commission on Dams

Journal Articles
(Includes only citations for journals that are available at the WWU Libraries, either in print or online, or are openly available on the Web.)

Babbitt, Bruce. Bioscience.  What goes up, may come down.  Aug 2002.Vol.52, Iss. 8; pg. 656.  Full text available at WWU
 

Baish, Sarah K., et al.  "The Complex Decisionmaking Process for Removing Dams," Environment,  May 2002, vol. 44, No. 4, p. 20 (12). Full text available at WWU

Bednarek, A.T.  "Undamming Rivers: A Review of the Ecological Impacts of Dam Removal."  Environmental Management,   June 2001,  vol. 27, no. 6, p.803-814. Full text available at WWU

Blumm, M.C. "Saving Snake River Water and Salmon Simultaneously: the Biological, Economic, and Legal Case for Breaching the Lower Snake River Dams, Lowering John Day Reservoir, and Restoring Natural River Flows."    Environmental Law (Portland),  1998, vol. 28, no. 4, p. 997-1054.  Full text available at WWU

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Born, S. M. "Socioeconomic and institutional dimensions of dam removals: The Wisconsin experience."  Environmental Management, 1998,  vol. 22, no. 3, p. 359-370.  Full text available at WWU

Bushaw-Newton, Karen L., David D Hart,  James E Pizzuto,  James R Thomson,  et al. An integrative approach towards understanding ecological responses to dam removal: The Manatawny Creek study.  Journal of the American Water Resources Association.  Dec 2002. Vol.38, Iss. 6;  pg. 1581, 19 pgs.  Full text available at WWU.

CUI, Y , G PARKER, C Braudrick, WE Dietrich, B Cluer.  Dam Removal Express Assessment Models (DREAM). Part 1: Model development and validation;  Part 2: Sample runs/ sensitivity tests Journal of Hydraulic Research, 2006

"Dam Removal", Special issue (dedicated to the topic of  dam removal).  Bioscience, Aug. 2002, vol. 52, no. 8.  Full text available at WWU.

Doyle, Martin W., et al.  FORUM Toward policies and decision-making for dam removal  Environmental Management, vol. 31, n4 p. 453-465. Full text available at WWU.

     --  -- "Geomorphic Analogies for Assessing Probable Channel Response to Dam Removal."  Journal of the American Water Resources Association, Dec. 2002, vol. 38,         
              No. 6, p. 1567 (13)  Full text available at WWU.

     -- --  "Dam removal in the United States:  emerging needs for science and policy.  EOS, January 28, 2003, vol. 84 (4) p.29-36.  Full text available.

Evans, James E., et al.  "Assessment Using GIS and Sediment Routing of the Proposed Removal of Ballville Dam, Sandusky River, Ohio."  Journal of the American Water Resources Association, December 2002, vol. 38, No. 6, p.1549 (17)  Full text available at WWU.

Engberg, Catherine C.  "The Dam Owner's Guide to Retirement Planning: Assessing Owner Liability for Downstream Sediment Flow from Obsolete Dams."  
Stanford Environmental  Law Journal, January 2002, vol. 21, No. 1, p.177 (46) Full text available at WWU.

Gende, Scott M., Richard T. Edwards, et al.  Pacific salmon in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems.  Bioscience.  Oct. 2002, v. 52, issue 10, p. 917, 12 pgs.

Gregory, Stan, Hiram Li,  Judy Li.  The conceptual basis for ecological responses to dam removal.  Bioscience.  Aug 2002. Vol. 52, Iss. 8; pg. 713, 11 pgs  Full text available at WWU.

Hart, D. D  and N. L. Poff,  (editors)  "A Special Section on Dam Removal and River Restoration."  (9 articles)  Bioscience.  August 2002, vol. 52, no. 8, p. 653-747.  Full text available at WWU.

Kanehl, P.D. "Changes in the Habitat and Fish Community of the Milwaukee River, Wisconsin, Following Removal of the Woolen Mills Dam."  North American Journal of Fisheries Management.  May 1997, Vol. 17, no. 2, p. 387-400. 

Kondolf, G. M., A. J. Boulton, S. O'Daniel, G. C. Poole, F. J. Rahel, E. H. Stanley, E. Wohl, A. Bång, J. Carlstrom, C. Cristoni, H. Huber, S. Koljonen, P. Louhi, and K. Nakamura 2006. Process-based ecological river restoration: visualizing three-dimensional connectivity and dynamic vectors to recover lost linkages. Ecology and Society 11(2): 5. Avalable online

Lenhart, Christian F.  "A Preliminary Review of NOAA's Community-Based Dam Removal and Fish Passage Projects." Coastal Management, Jan-Mar 2003,  vol. 31, no.1, p. 79 (20)  Full text available at WWU. 

Loomis, John B. " Measuring the Economic Benefits of Removing Dams and Restoring the Elwha River: Results of a Contingent Valuation Survey."  Water Resources Research, vol. 32, Issue 2, p. 441-448.  Full text available at WWU.

Loomis, John B. Use of  non-market  valuation studies in water resource management assessments.  Water Resources Update, 1997.

Pejchar, Liba, and Keith Warner.  "A River Might Run Through It Again: Criteria for Consideration of Dam Removal and Interim Lessons from California."  Environmental Management, Nov .2001, vol. 28, No. 5, p. 561 (15).  Full text available at WWU.

Pizzuto, Jim.  "Effects of Dam Removal on River Form and Process."  BioScience vol. 52 (8)  2002, p. 683.  Full text available at WWU.

Poff, N. Leroy, and D. D. Hart.  How dams vary and why it matters for the emerging science of dam removal.  BioScience, 2002,  vol. 52 (8), 2002.  Available online.

Pohl, Molly M.  "Bringing Down Our Dams: Trends in American Dam Removal Rationales."  Journal of the American Water Resources Association,  Dec. 2002, vol. 38, No. 6, p.1511 (9) Full text available at WWU.

-- --  Channel bed mobility downstream from the Elwha Dams, Washington.  Professional Geographer, 2004, vol. 56 (3) pp. 422-431.  Full text available at WWU.

Shafroff, PB, JM Friedman, et al.  "Potential Responses of Riparian Vegetation to Dam Removal. " BioScience,  (Special Issue) 2002,  vol. 52 iss:8  p. 703. Full text available at WWU.
 

Smith, L.W.  "Breaching of a Small Irrigation Dam in Oregon: A Case History."  North American Journal of Fisheries Management.  February 2000, vol. 20, no. 1, p. 205-219.

Stanley, e. & MW Doyle.  Trading off:  the ecological effects of dam removal.  Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 2003, vol 1 no.1, p. 15-22.
 

Tucker, Michael.  "The Northwest U.S. Dam Breaching Decision: Factors, Costs and Benefits."  (.pdf full-text)  Environment, Development, and Sustainability, 2001, vol. 3, no.3, p. 217 (11)

Whitworth, Joe S., et al.  "A Relic Dam Dislodged by a Dormant Doctrine: The Story of Beneficial Use and Savage Rapids Dam."  Water Law Review (University of Denver).   Fall, 2001, vol. 5, p.183.  Available online at WWU

Wunderlich, R.C., et al.  "Restoration of the Elwha River ecosystem."  

"Draft Environmental Impact Statement - Elwha River Ecosystem Restoration Implementation".  Fisheries, 1994.  vol. 19, no. 8, p.11-20.

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