This project would protect, through the acquisition of a conservation easement, a 94-acre property in the middle reach of the Black River hosting 2,200 feet of the Black River, 1,000 feet of Beaver Creek, and 75 acres of wetlands in Thurston County, WA. The general terms of the easement would limit farming to areas currently farmed, widen riparian buffers to 100 feet on Black River and Beaver Creek, and limit development intensity and location on the property. The target species addressed by this project are adult and juvenile Chinook salmon, steelhead, coho salmon, chum salmon and coastal cutthroat trout. The project is directly north of our recently acquired Ramos Preserve (SRFB 14-1268), and will create a single conservation block of over 200 acres, 7,000 feet of mainstem Black River, and thousands more feet of side channels and sloughs.