Poose Creek Fish Ladder2017 Web Site Slides - Poose Creek Poose Creek is a tributary of the Williams Fork River in Northern Colorado, just north of the Flat Tops Wilderness near the town of Yampa. Poose Creek supports a strong population of native cutthroat trout that is of significant conservation interest to a variety of natural resource agencies and non-profit organizations. OneFish designed and oversaw construction of a fish ladder to provide upstream passage through a concrete culvert underneath a forest service road. - Vertical slot fish ladder
- Integrated into existing concrete culvert with no impact on road or culvert operations
- Project completed in 2013
- 2015 study showed 100% of the cutthroat trout that reached the culvert successfully traveled upstream through the ladder
- Project owners
- U.S. Forest Service
- Trout Unlimited
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