PORT ANGELES — Dry Creek Elementary students in Nancy McHenry and Gunnar Thomason’s fourth-grade classrooms planted trees in the bed of the now-drained Lake Aldwell for Earth Day.
Led by Wayne Fitzwater of the state Department of Natural Resources and Cam Field of Merrill & Ring, students planted 300 western red cedar trees on Monday.
The outing continued “a 24-year tradition of student-involved tree planting,” said district spokeswoman Tina Smith-O’Hara.
The former Lake Aldwell was behind the Elwha Dam, which was demolished last spring as part of the $325 million Elwah River Restoration Project.
Its sister dam, Glines Canyon Dam upstream, is partially removed.
