A federal program could fix Washington's salmon-killing culverts
It would cost the state about $7.5 billion to repair culverts that violate Indigenous fishing rights, but millions from the U.S. government could help.
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It would cost the state about $7.5 billion to repair culverts that violate Indigenous fishing rights, but millions from the U.S. government could help.
A billion-dollar program is unblocking millions of killer culverts across the nation to help fish get to spawning grounds.
Millions of killer culverts lurk beneath North American roadways, strangling populations of migratory fish. Now with a nationwide project, the United States is trying to fix them.
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Many culverts were built in the 1950s and contribute to population declines of salmon and other fish that return to streams to spawn.