PORT ANGELES — A local resident has been fined $225 for taking a 100-year-old wagon wheel from the newly exposed lakebed at Lake Adwell after the Elwha Dam was removed.
Park officials say that the receding waters at the sites of Lake Aldwell and Lake Mills have revealed many items left behind by early residents of the Elwha Valley.
But they want to remind the public those items are of historic significance and collecting such items is illegal in both reservoirs.
Park rangers were alerted that the person, who was not unidentified, had taken the wagon wheel after an ad was posted for it on Craigslist in mid-June.
