About the Class
| Taught by Catalina Burch |
Join Trout Unlimited for an inside look at how we’re improving fish passage across the Puget Sound region. This class explores how road-stream crossings—especially culverts—can block migrating salmon and how we identify, assess, and prioritize these barriers for restoration. Learn how culvert inventories help reconnect vital habitat, support healthy watersheds, and contribute to salmon recovery efforts across our region. The class will include fun interactive components including a salmon launcher.
| About Catalina Burch |
Trout Unlimited is a non-profit conservation organization working to protect and restore cold water rivers and streams by inspiring and mobilizing people to be champions for them. Catalina is a restoration practitioner working on fish passage projects in the Snohomish and Stillaguamish watersheds to support salmon recovery efforts. Her work engages with the grassroots volunteer Barrier Assessment Team to inventory culverts at road-stream crossings and identify barriers to fish migration. Prior to this role, she worked on estuary restoration in the Puget Sound for NOAA Fisheries and The Nature Conservancy, where she developed an expertise in muddy marsh walking/skating/sinking. Earlier in her career, she worked seasonally for Trout Unlimited in northeast Oregon, where she led low-tech floodplain restoration efforts, serving as a “human beaver” to help re-establish natural stream processes. She is inspired by nature and loves exploring the mountains and ocean of the Pacific Northwest on foot and with her paintbrush.
