This project proposes the restoration of 108 acres of inter-tidal wetlands on the former Nalley Farm property located within the Skokomish Indian Reservation, near the mouth of the Skokomish River, at the Great Bend of Hood Canal.  Approximately 3,650 linear feet of dike surrounding the property on the West side of the Nalley Slough will be removed.  The borrow pits just landward of the dikes will be refilled and leveled in order to allow even tidal flows from the outer promoting the natural formation of tidal sloughs.  The elevated road network inside the restoration will be removed and replaced with an elevated boardwalk to allow even tidal inundation throughout the restoration area.  The boardwalk in the restoration area is necessary to allow continuing maintenance of the Tacoma Public Utilities high-voltage transmission towers, and to maintain Tribal access to treaty-protected and culturally significant sites. The Skokomish Estuary was the largest contiguous salt marsh complex in Hood Canal and the eastern Strait of Juan de Fuca.  Landscape alterations to this site are well documented showing rapid and massive change to tidal inundation patterns with the development of low levees around former salt marsh to facilitate agricultural conversion.  This project represents the single most important habitat restoration project in Hood Canal for the recovery of rearing habitat of the federally-listed summer chum and Chinook salmon, bull trout and now proposed coastal steelhead.