Washington State and the Pacific Northwest Aquatic Monitoring Partnership have initiated a series of Intensively Monitored Watersheds across the Pacific Coast to determine our ability to increase production of salmonids through watershed restoration of habitat limiting factors. This partnership has identified 4 smaller watersheds in the Hood Canal region as ideal locations for this effort and has established monitoring regimes appropriate for detecting trends in these watersheds. In addition, local partners have conducted outreach to private and public landowners to educate and potentially induct stewards into the process for restoring salmon habitat. Scores of projects have been identified, including the ability to conduct large woody debris restoration in over one mile of the anadromous zone of Little Anderson Creek.

The proposed effort will first focus on installing LWD into one mile of lower Little Anderson Creek in 2006-7, with a second phase conducted in subsequent years in the upper watershed. Future projects in this program will seek to develop projects in the other treatment watersheds, including Big Beef and Seabeck Creeks. Requested funds will also pay for LWD, labor, and equipment for Little Anderson Creek. A WDFW Landowner Incentive Program (LIP) grant will be used as match to demolish a structure (barn) in the floodplain and replant the riparian zone.

This project is one of two components to the SRFB-funded project shown in PRISM as #05-1665.