Phase 2 of this project consists of 111 acres of forests, and riparian habitat, including ~1620 feet of shoreline on Little Skookum Inlet. Freshwater habitats on the property are home to fall chum; the marine shoreline along the property provides habitat for juvenile chinook, coho, steelhead, and cutthroat trout. The shoreline, as well as the bedlands of Little Skookum Inlet, are also highly productive shellfish growing areas.The property owner has agreed to sell a conservation easement (CE) to extinguish developmental rights (zoned R10 & R5), permanently protecting it from non-open space conversions (i.e. residential development), expanding no-cut riparian buffers to shorelines and salmon-bearing streams, effectively doubling the area protected from timber harvest.A CE would prevent increases in water temperature and fecal coliform contamination of property's salmon-bearing streams and nearshore habitats. Historically occurring within nearshore areas, these impacts are often associated with residential development.Protecting the property via a CE will ensure that its marine shoreline, riparian habitats and forested uplands will continue to provide water quality as well as fish and wildlife habitat benefits. Protection of the property will not only directly benefit salmonid stocks and habitat, but also forage fish that utilize Little Skookum Inlet that salmonids and other species predate upon. Secondary species include orca whales and bald eagles.Phase 1 (644.5 acres, ~9560 f