Tulalip takes collaborative approach on fish passage projects - Northwest Treaty Tribes

Tulalip takes collaborative approach on fish passage projects - Northwest Treaty Tribes

The Tulalip Tribes are prepared this year to pull metal piping known as culverts from beneath roadways to improve the flow of streams—and the ability of salmon to reach habitat in those waterways—at several locations across their traditional homelands. Efforts to replace undersized, poorly placed or otherwise ineffective culverts with larger pass-through structures like bridges have been underway for years in Tulalip’s homelands north of Seattle…