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Infrastructure matters for wildlife too – here's how aging culverts are blocking Pacific salmon migration

  • Written by Ashlee Abrantes, Ph.D. Candidate in Environmental Science & Policy, University of Washington
imageA culvert in Seattle's Lake City neighborhood, rated 67% passable for salmon. Ashlee Abrantes, CC BY-ND

As the Biden administration prepares to make the biggest investment in U.S. infrastructure in more than a decade, there’s much discussion about how systems like roads, bridges and electric power grids affect people’s daily lives....

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