Capitol Land Trust and project partners conserved 5,200 feet of freshwater shoreline along Deer and Cranberry creeks, 3,200 feet of estuarine shoreline, and 125 acres of highly functional coastal wetland habitat at the uppermost end of Oakland Bay in deep South Puget Sound. These habitats provide feeding, resting and transitioning habitat for coho (mixed stock), native winter steelhead (listed), chinook (listed), coastal cutthroat, and native summer chum. The intertidal estuarine mudflats have the highest ecological function for salmonids of all the habitat types in Oakland Bay, providing food production, migration corridors, physiological refuge, and predator refuge. The project site is an intact, natural estuarine and coastal wetland area once characteristic of the region; EDT existing function scores are A-, A, and A+. This project builds upon a SRFB project that conserved a freshwater/estuarine complex at Malaney Creek 1/2 mile south of the current project site. Cumulatively, the protection of this parcel creates a fundamental shift towards a huge difference in the liklihood for the long-term protection of the upper Oakland Bay ecological system. Conservation of the project site was a high priority in numerous WRIA 14 recovery planning documents, and by the Squaxin Island Tribe, Mason Conservation District and other agency and nonprofit partners.