Dosewallips River
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| image = Mt Constance Dosewallips River.JPG
| image_caption = Mount Constance (7,756 ft) above the Dosewallips River in Dosewallips State Park
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| pushpin_map_caption= Location of the mouth of the Dosewallips River in Washington
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| mouth = Hood Canal
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File:Dosewallips state park estuary.JPG]]
The Dosewallips River ({{IPAc-en|ˌ|d|oʊ|s|ɪ|ˈ|w|ɔː|l|ɪ|p|s}} {{respell|DOH|si|WAW|lips}}){{cite book |title=Rand McNally Goode's World Atlas |first=J. Paul |last=Goode |author2=Veregin Howard, Ph.D. |edition=21 |date=June 2006 |accessdate=2008-03-10 |isbn=0-528-85339-2 |publisher=Rand McNally & Company |url=https://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0528853392/ref=sib_dp_srch_pop?v=search-inside&keywords=dosewallips&go.x=0&go.y=0&go=Go%21# |pages=288}} is a river situated on the Olympic Peninsula in the U.S. state of Washington. It rises near Mount Anderson in the Olympic Mountains within Olympic National Park and drains to Hood Canal and thence to the Pacific Ocean.
The river originates in two forks, which join about five miles from the headwaters. The National Park Service maintains trails and campsites along both forks, including one at the fork itself. The road leading to the trailhead was washed out in January 2002,[http://www.wta.org/~wta/cgi-bin/wtaweb.pl?2+news+read+advocacy+10109+0+10 Washington Trails Association] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928051112/http://www.wta.org/~wta/cgi-bin/wtaweb.pl?2+news+read+advocacy+10109+0+10 |date=September 28, 2007 }}[https://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/gpo41549 Final Environmental Impact Statement: Dosewallips Road Washout Project, Hood Canal Ranger District, Olympic National Forest, Olympic National Park, Jefferson County, Washington] United States Forest Service and the ranger station near the trailhead has been abandoned.
The entire estuary of the Dosewallips is within Dosewallips State Park and ongoing restoration efforts led by Wild Fish Conservancy, the Port Gamble S'Klallam Tribe, and the Hood Canal Coordinating Council are intended to improve salmon habitat through the reconnection of the river to its historical floodplain.
Name
The name Dosewallips comes from a Twana Indian myth about a man named Dos-wail-opsh who was turned into a mountain at the river's source.{{cite book |last= Phillips |first= James W. |title= Washington State Place Names |url= https://archive.org/details/washingtonstatep00phil |url-access= registration |year= 1971 |publisher= University of Washington Press |isbn= 0-295-95158-3}} There are also several Klallam legends about the "Great Changer", Doquebatl, who transformed a mythical Klallam chief into a mountain at the headwaters of the Dosewallips River. In another story Doquebatl changed a woman into Mount Rainier and her son into Little Tahoma.{{cite book |last= Parratt |first= Smitty |title= Gods & goblins: A Field Guide to Place Names of Olympic National Park |year= 1984 |publisher= CP Publications |isbn= 0-914195-00-X |page= 38}}
History
In 1923, the Washington State Department of Highways built a steel truss bridge over the river near its mouth in Brinnon to carry U.S. Route 101.{{cite web |last=Long |first=Priscilla |date=August 29, 2003 |title=Dosewallips River Bridge opens in August 1923. |url=http://www.historylink.org/File/5536 |work=HistoryLink |accessdate=January 7, 2016}}
In 1982, the Jefferson County Public Utility District proposed the construction of a 10.4-megawatt hydroelectric dam on the river near the Elkhorn Campground.{{cite news |last=Lane |first=Bob |date=December 30, 1982 |title=City Light sees problem with small-scale hydropower projects |page=E2 |work=The Seattle Times}} Controversy over the dam project led to a dispute between the PUD and the Washington Department of Ecology that was settled in the United States Supreme Court case PUD No. 1 of Jefferson County v. Washington Department of Ecology in 1994.{{cite news |last1=Pryne |first1=Eric |last2=Williams |first2=Marla |date=May 31, 1994 |title=Supreme Court ruling says states can control water behind dams |page=A1 |work=The Seattle Times}}
See also
References
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External links
- [https://www.nps.gov/olym/index.htm National Park Service - Olympic National Park]
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