South Puget Sound Salmon Enhancement Group (SPSSEG) used this funding to employ a watershed-based approach to the identification and removal of three culvert barriers to salmonid migration in the Minter Creek watershed. This project replaced the blockages with structures that allow unimpeded fish passage for salmonids at all life stages. The project sites were scattered throughout the basin on Minter Creek and its two major tributaries, Little Minter Creek and Huge Creek, and were identified by the Pierce Conservation District Culvert Inventory for the Key Peninsula and Gig Harbor Watersheds (2001). Newly accessible habitat will be suitable for Chinook, chum and coho salmon, steelhead, and sea-run and resident cutthroat trout. The Salmon and Steelhead Stock Inventory (SASSI) stocks in this basin are considered wild and mixed. This project not only increased available spawning and rearing habitat, but also allows downstream migration of streambed material, upstream movement of nutrients in the form of salmon carcasses, and reduced the risk of road failure at aging and undersized crossing structures. A partnership was formed with the Pierce Conservation District on some or all of these culvert replacements, and discussion has been initiated among new staff at each organization concerning long-term cooperation on such projects.