A creative plan in the Legislature to raise billions of dollars to pay for the court-ordered removal of fish passage barriers appears to be a pipe dream, for this year at least.

Underneath the bridge, workers had already poured two concrete slabs to place the culverts on. The deteriorating bridge is scheduled to be resurfaced later this spring.

Culverts can lead to considerable habitat fragmentation in rivers and streams. As a consequence, community composition of benthic invertebrates in culverts and dispersal movements through culverts may ...

With just over a week until the scheduled end of the legislative session, the state Senate’s bipartisan proposal to borrow up to $5 billion to eliminate culverts faces, well, barriers on several ...