The Quileute Tribe used this grant for an in-stream restoration project: to create and place 30 large woody debris (LWD) structures via helicopter within a 1.9 mile reach of Hyas Creek in Clallam County, Washington. Hyas Creek is one of only two tributaries of South Fork of Calawah (Quillayute Basin) with anadromous fish spawning and rearing habitat. The anadromous fish in this basin (Chinook, coho, and steelhead) are all wild runs. While not ESA-status, these fish are important for ceremony, subsistence, and commercial fisheries of the Quileute Tribe, and to the Forks economy. In the 1998 US Forest Service (USFS) and Quileute Watershed Analysis (WSA) for the Sitkum SF Calawah and the Limiting Factors Analysis (LFA) of 2000 which relied on it, authors noted lack of LWD from the 1951 Forks Fire and subsequent salvage. Without LWD the creek energy was too high to develop channel diversity and retain spawning gravel; scour was a frequent result. The channel lacked adequate spawning gravel and refugia. Both the WSA and LFA recommended LWD for Hyas Creek. At the beginning of the project, field scoping finalized site plans and LWD locations. USFS employee Phil DeCillis drew up site plans to aid the ground and air crews. Retired USFS employee Jim Jacoby facilitated tree selection. D+H Enterprises began on-the-ground work in August; they felled the trees and prepared for their removal at three designated sites, and they cleared danger and sight problem trees along the stream. In early September, Columbia Helicopters placed the trees at the LWD locations and in mid-September Quileute crews cabled trees together and anchored them to logs and rootwads donated by USFS. The site is jointly owned by USFS, which supported the endeavor and Rayonier, which allowed access.