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The Hoh, Bogachiel, Sol Duc, Calawah, and Quillayute rivers on Washington's Olympic Peninsula (793 words) |
 | The river is best known for its large run of hatchery steelhead, yet some of the largest steelhead to return to any of the Olympic Peninsula rivers return to the upper portions of this river. |
| Calawah, which means "middle river", referring to the river's placement between the Sol Duc and Bogachiel rivers, begins just three or four miles northeast of Forks, Washington, where its two forks, the North and South, join. |
| Formed by the confluence of the Bogachiel and Sol Duc rivers, the Quillayute, one of the shortest rivers in Washington at less than 6 miles, is totally tidal. |
| HOH AREA 1 - ELDER BOB (6200 words) |
| After first filing for a homestead claim on the nearby upper Hoh River in 1906, Peter and Ora and their family of seven children moved to the Bogachiel River, which was slightly closer to the town of Forks. |
| The cascading volume of the river is increased by an average annual rainfall of 145 inches (Fletcher 1966, 218). |
| Although the valley floor is somewhat wider than that of the Bogachiel River, bottomlands often have soil that is unsuitable for agriculture and are susceptible to flooding. |
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