The Fly Fishing Forum - The Best Fly Fishing News and Information focused on North America: Another Fish Barrier Removed

Another Fish Barrier Removed
================================================================================
John Dodge - The Olympian on 05/10/2012 09:50:00
 
Coho, cutthroat trout, steelhead and other fish will have an easier time
migrating in a small stream that flows out of Capitol Forest to the Black River,
thanks to a state program that aids small-forestland owners with removal of
barriers that block fish.
The $130,000 project this week to replace a fish-blocking road culvert with a
small bridge across Goliath Creek frees up more than four miles of upstream fish
habitat. It’s a prime example of the kind of work the state Department of
Natural Resources and its partners are poised to do.
Since 2003, some 232 fish barriers – usually road culverts – have been
eliminated on nonindustrial timberland, returning some 500 miles of stream
habitat to migrating salmon and trout through the state Department of Natural
Resource’s Family Forest Fish Passage Program.
Read more here:
http://www.theolympian.com/2012/10/05/2274720/another-fish-barrier-removed.html#storylink=cpy