Miles Lost Miles Gained – Art and science combine to virtually restore lost rivers through digital maps, sculpture and intersecting tales of ecosystem destruction and restoration.

Peterson Brothers panorama, 1878, showing historic Seattle before regrades and fill of Duwamish tidelands.

Digital representation of modern Seattle, from Peterson Brothers vantage, overlaid with historic Elliot Bay shoreline and mouth of Duwamish River. (MLMG, Google)

Elwha Dam construction 1910-1911 (NPS)

Elwha Dam before removal, July 2011

Elwha dam nearly removed, February 2012

Early attempt to shift the Cedar River out of the Black River in Renton. (UW)

Renton Airport, former location of Black River and Cedar river confluence (MLMG)

Duwamish River (Google Earth)

Duwamish River near South Park, 1891

The Miles Lost/Miles Gained project is funded in part by a Preservation Special Projects grant and King County Lodging Tax, with technical assistance from the U.W. Puget Sound River History Project and the Burke Museum Waterlines Project.