Providing Passage: How to Build an AOP Stream Simulator Culvert

The Tongass National Forest is packed with salmon-producing streams and rivers that connect the ocean to critical freshwater habitat. Communities across Southeast Alaska rely on salmon as a food resource, a staple of fishing livelihoods and cornerstone to the Indigenous ways-of-life that have existed in this region for thousands of years. On the Tongass, hundreds of identified sites of culverts and bridges from past logging roads that may be blocking hundreds of miles of salmon spawning streams. When this road infrastructure deteriorates, fish traveling upstream can be blocked from reaching their habitat, nutrient and sediment cycles of the stream are cut off, and the road can become damaged by erosive waters. To solve this, one pulls out the culvert or preserves the road access by insterting an aquatic organism passage culvert.
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Video by Pioneer Studios commissioned in partnership between the Sitka Conservation Society and National Forest Foundation. NFF works on behalf of the American public to inspire personal and meaningful connections to our National Forests. By directly engaging Americans and leveraging private and public funding, the NFF leads forest conservation efforts and promotes responsible recreation. Each year the NFF restores fish and wildlife habitat, facilitates common ground, plants trees in areas affect by fires, insects and disease and improves recreational opportunities. The NFF believes our National Forests and all they offer are an American treasure and are vital to the health of our communities. Learn more at nationalforests.org.
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Sitka Conservation Society works to find solutions on how to manage resources on public lands seeking the best benefit to ways-of-life, intact ecosystems, and salmon streams. Support our work of bettering the future of the Tongass: www.sitkawild.org/donate.