In partnership with The Nature Conservancy, AVEO trained and coordinated over 80 volunteer “Culvert Operators,” who surveyed nearly 1000 culverts and bridges throughout southwest New Hampshire in 2006 & 2008 to determine where fish and aquatic wildlife passage is most impacted by road structures. TNC used these data to prioritize sites for aquatic connectivity restoration throughout the Ashuelot watershed, and AVEO now serves on Ashuelot River Stream Crossing Improvement Project team, a collaborative effort to restore stream connectivity in the Ashuelot watershed led by Trout Unlimited.
Read more about this project from The Nature Conservancy, in the TNC report on river connectivity restoration priorities in high quality subwatersheds in southwest New Hampshire (2010; pdf), and in our most recent project update (11/2011).
For more information, contact AVEO Program Director Brett Amy Thelen at thelen@harriscenter.org or (603) 358-2065.
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