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Many thanks to our sponsors:

Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe - The Bullitt Foundation

Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe - Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe

Squaxin Island Tribe - Swinomish Tribe - Upper Skagit Tribe

Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission

Morisset, Schlosser & Jozwiak - Kanji & Katzen - SR Productions

Table Captains (Thank You !)

Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe - Julie Busch - Bullitt Foundation - Emory Bundy

Sue Billings/Tom Ring - Lauren Rasmussen - Rachael Paschal Osborn

Melissa Arias - Anne Johnson - Steve Robinson

Bob & Shirley Nixon - John Osborn

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Environmental Law & Policy

Harriet Bullitt
- restoring Icicle River by removing dams and
restoring stream flow
- river advocate and social visionary

Russell Busch
- restoring the free-flowing Elwha River
- champion for the rights of Native
American Tribes

Elwha River - Olympic Peninsula.

Lower dam slated for removal (above) and lower Elwha River (below). Russ Busch’s work over 30 years has been integral to the decisions to remove dams on the Elwha River.

(Tom Ring photos)

Icicle River - near Leavenworth, Washington.

Dam with headgates (above) diverting Icicle River water to a federal fish hatchery. One of the former dam sites (below). Harriet Bullitt removed the dam as part of her life-long fight to restore the River.

(John Osborn photos)

“You have to keep at it. And the successes are because someone did keep at it.”

click here for Harriet’s Messages from Icicle River

(Matt Runkel photo)

Celebrate Water!

Russ Busch - Harriet Bullitt

2010-2011 Prof. Ralph W. Johnson Water Heroes

a gala event held on January 28, 2011 at the

Maritime Event Center, Seattle Waterfront

CELP is dedicated to protecting and restoring rivers and drinking-water aquifers throughout Washington State and the larger Columbia River watershed.

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