The Dosewallips River contains some of the most important and highest quality salmon habitat in eastern Jefferson County as identified by the Eastern Jefferson County Refugia Study and the HCCC Salmon Recovery Strategy. The Dosewallips Floodplain Acquisition Project - Phase II will permanently protect critical in-stream habitat, floodplain, sandbars, side channels, and floodplain connections that support spawning populations of threatened Puget Sound Chinook salmon and Hood Canal summer chum in the Dosewallips River. The high quality habitat present in this river reach is also used by steelhead, Coho salmon, pink salmon, and cutthroat trout. Our proposal to acquire over 33 acres will protect a channel migration zone with the highest spawning use by Puget Sound Chinook salmon in some years. This project will prevent future habitat degradation along more than one-half mile of shoreline. This project builds on Jefferson County's successful SRFB 2004 application (the original Dosewallips Floodplain Acquisition Project) that resulted in the acquisition of 74 acres of complex riparian and floodplain habitat. Phase II increases the protected acreage in this important "Powerlines Reach" reach by more than 30%. Phase II will also incorporate restoration activities that reduce high risk threats to water quality.