Culvert replacements to reopen salmon streams near Lake Samish
By Josh Maritz | May 18Depending on the time of year, you’re bound to see some type of salmon running up a Washington waterway-spring steelhead, summer sockeye, fall chinook, chum, coho or the year-round cutthroat. But in many places, that journey ends abruptly at a culvert: A narrow, aging pipe where roads cross streams, often blocking fish from reaching their historic spawning grounds.







