| Project Description and
Results: |
The Ashland FRO contracted
to Bruce Adamson Consulting to
sponsor a workshop, titled "How to Build Fish
Friendly Stream Crossings." The workshop, hosted by the Marquette
Biological Station, was for resource professionals determined
to remediate stream degradation and fish passage problems resulting
from historic road crossing construction practices, and to insure
that new road crossings are designed to be "fish friendly". Workshop
participants visited demonstration sites on the Salmon Trout River
where several problem road crossings exist. All of the sites visited
provided examples of sedimentation and erosion problems resulting
from poor construction practices and some also had perched culverts
that blocked fish passage. Approximately 20 natural resource managers
and landowners attended the workshop. The course was an outstanding opportunity to learn design and
construction techniques to create fish and habitat friendly road
crossings. Another
workshop is being planned for 2002. |