Across the country National Fish Passage Program projects funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law| FWS.gov
This project will reconnect a recovering native lake sturgeon population to 20 miles of critical spawning habitat, while furthering efforts to reconnect upstream Tribal restoration areas to the broader Red River Basin population recovery effort. This will be accomplished by replacing two undersized culverts with two span bridges where the U.S. Highway 10 divided expressway crosses the Otter Tail River. The present culverts create high velocities impassible to fish during the critical spring s...| FWS.gov
Looming over one of the most culturally significant sites in north central Washington, Similkameen Falls, the Enloe Dam has blocked salmon and steelhead from migrating into the upper portion of this watershed for over 100 years. Removing the dam will open up over 1,520 miles of cold-water habitat ideal for ESA-listed species including Upper Columbia Steelhead and Spring Chinook as well as non-listed Summer Chinook salmon and Pacific Lamprey, providing greater assurance that these species pers...| FWS.gov
This project will convert county-owned road crossings to aquatic organism passage compliant structures. Local aquatic species will benefit from passage and genetic connectivity as well as access to spawning habitat. Human populations will benefit from more resilient infrastructure, reduced flooding, safety upgrades to current sites, and enhanced ecological services.| FWS.gov
Fish passage is the ability of fish or other aquatic species to move through an aquatic system among all habitats necessary to complete their life cycle. The National Fish Passage Program opens up aquatic travel routes that have been blocked or fragmented. When rivers are fragmented by dams, culverts, or other diversions, they can become congested. These aquatic barriers have the same effect as roadblocks on a busy highway. Traffic backs up, people get stranded, and emergency services stal...| FWS.gov
$200 million dollar investment in rivers, wildlife, and communities.| FWS.gov
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced 29 states will receive just over $70 million to support 43 projects that will address outdated or obsolete dams, culverts, levees and other barriers fragmenting the nation’s rivers and streams.| FWS.gov