The Skookum Creek watershed is targeted by the WRIA 14 Lead Entity for stream habitat diversity projects that benefit coho, steelhead, and cutthroat. Little Skookum Valley Creek is about 1.5 miles long and provides additional spawning and rearing habitat for several salmonid species (chum, coho, steelhead, and cutthroat) in the watershed. Funding for the first phase of this larger project was used to improve a Mason County stream/road crossing on Little Skookum Valley Creek, which is a tributary to Skookum Creek at river mile 5. The Eich Road culvert was a rusted out, squashed, multi-plate culvert that was nearly impassable. The project replaced it with a pre-stressed concrete bridge that is 28 feet long by 16 feet wide and set on a skewed concrete abutment and concrete spread footing. The new bridge improved stream bed material transport and natural stream flows to allow fish migration at all life stages.  This was the first of many phases (completed and planned) to protect and restore Little Skookum Valley. The second phase included planting hundreds of native plants along 1,000 feet of the creek. In addition, they carried out a small scale large woody debris (LWD) project in this agricultural valley by installing 20 pieces of LWD into the stream bank to provide additional habitat complexity and create pools within the ditched channel. At least two pieces of wood were placed at each location, creating nine pools.