This grant proposal is part of a larger Budd to Henderson Costal Conservation Initiative which seeks to expand nearshore and upland protection between Gull Harbor (in Budd Inlet) and Woodard Bay (in Henderson Inlet) and create a 600-acre protected overland corridor linking the two inlets located in Thurston County. This initiative has already conserved over 150 acres in Gull Harbor, and has received grant funding to conserve parts of the last major unprotected areas between Gull Harbor and Woodard Bay. The objective of this project was to restore salmonid habitat and facilitate fish passage into what was historically a salmon-bearing tributary to Gull Harbor. Working with the landowner and an engineering consultant, Capitol Land Trust removed an approximately 1/4-acre impoundment formed by an embankment dam at the northeast end of the Gull Harbor estuary. Water discharged from the impoundment through a concrete outlet structure (overflow weir) into two 18-inch diameter culverts and into the Gull Harbor Estuary. The embankment dam and outlet structure were an anadromous fish barrier, preventing natural stream and estuary function, and forming an artificial barrier between Gull Harbor estuary and the stream. The causway/dam was replaced with a 50' pre-fab bridge, and part of the upstream portion of the creek was re-aligned to better match a natural stream channel.