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.

This project is the second phase of an effort to install LWD into Little Anderson Creek. A watershed assessment was conducted and documented with a conceptual design for placement of pieces of lage woody debris in order to improve habitat and stabilize the large amounts of sediment in this system. In summer 2009, we incorporated nearly 100 pieces of large woody debris by helicopter in about a 1.5 mile reach in the middle reach of the mainstem below Newberry Hill RD. Hand crews came back in and nudged many pieces down into their 'final' resting place in the stream using a grip hoist.

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