PORT ANGELES — National Park Service Director Jon Jarvis will visit Olympic National Park on Friday, the Peninsula Daily News has learned.

Jarvis will be on the North Olympic Peninsula in a side trip from Seattle, where he will attend a “listening session” as part of President Barack Obama’s America’s Great Outdoors Initiative.

Jarvis’ visit was confirmed this afternoon by Park Service spokeswoman Sue Husari, who said Jarvis would visit Olympic National Park sometime on Friday but did not know when.

Neither Husari nor Washington, D.C.-based Park Service spokesman Jeffrey Olson knew Jarvis’ schedule while in Port Angeles and if he will visit the Elwha and Glines Canyon dams, both of which will be torn down beginning in 2011 in a $350 million project slated for completion by 2014.

The project is one of the largest construction projects in the Park Service’s history and the largest tear-down project for any dams in the United States to date.

Olympic National Park spokeswoman Barb Maynes was unavailable for comment on Jarvis’ itinerary while he’s in Port Angeles.

The listening session in Seattle is among a series of similar events being held around the country.

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Senior Staff Writer Paul Gottlieb can be reached at 360-417-3536 or at paul.gottlieb@peninsuladailynews.com.