Page 6 - A River's Gifts: The Mighty Elwha River Reborn

Millions of years ago, before Washington became a state,

before humans walked the earth,
before wooly mammoths roamed,
powerful forces transformed rocks under the sea into mountains that touched the sky.

Rocky, craggy, rough, and steep.

Ice fields blanketed mountains and lowlands,
and fed smaller glaciers that marched slowly forward,
carving the narrow canyons

and broad valleys
where the Elwha River would soon flow.