Brian D. Winter never thought one project would set the tone for his entire career. Winter is the National Park Service's lead on the largest-ever dam-removal and river-restoration project in the U.S. The 57-year-old has been involved with the Elwha River, which lies mostly within Washington's Olympic National Park, for nearly three decades.

公园首席渔业生物学家帕特里克·克雷恩（Patrick Crain）表示，温特的一致性和平衡非常长的利益相关者的能力是关键。克兰说：“布莱恩一直为当天的主题做好了充分的准备，他的承诺给我留下了深刻的印象。”

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Brian Krohmer, lead for dam-removal contractor Barnard Construction Co., says Winter is the type of owner representative who embraces "cooperative partnerships" that streamline operations.

Winter says there was a healthy amount of opposition to the project when, in 1985, he started working on it for the Elwha Tribe. When he joined the National Park Service, he tried to make sure all stakeholders understood his role of mitigation in relation to dam removal and resource restoration.

"The challenges for this project have been the partnerships created for the park service to complete a project where they didn't have specific authority outside our borders," he says. "We needed to negotiate our mitigation components, and along the way there were all sorts of politics before this was in fact a funded project."

Winter focused on mitigation until September 2011, when the Elwha and Glines Canyon dams started to come out and the river-restoration effort picked up. He turned his attention to the fish, which delighted the biologist in him.

他说：“鱼向我们表明，如果我们把大坝拿出来，鱼就可以很快反应。”

With construction winding down early this year, Winter will focus on the final stage: biology.

"Success, for me, has always been defined as restoration of natural ecosystem processes," Winter remarks. "It may or may not go precisely as planned, but over time the ecosystem will respond positively."