Using fee simple property purchases, the project will permanently protect and make available for restoration Priority 1 salmonid habitat in the Dosewallips and Duckabush Rivers. Jefferson County will continue its efforts to protect and restore valuable floodplain and estuary habitat in the Mid Hood Canal ESU by working with local residents, homeowner associations, and a fire protection district to purchase and restore shoreline parcels on these two rivers. Targeted areas contain important habitat elements such as streams or side channels used by six species of salmonids including three species listed as "threatened" under the Endangered Species Act: Hood Canal summer chum, Puget Sound Chinook, and Puget Sound steelhead. The targeted Duckabush properties are located at the upper extent of the estuary and immediately upstream. They include a tributary, wetlands, and floodplain forest in the Olympic Canal Tracts. The Dosewallips target properties are adjacent to 75+ acres of productive floodplain habitat purchased previously by Jefferson County using SRFB funding. They include main stem, tributary and/or side channel shorelines all of which are considered Category A salmon refugia. This project will protect intact floodplain forests and slopes, remove improvements and threats to water quality from parcels at risk of continued flooding, prevent shoreline armoring and deforestation in an area that is increasingly popular with summer RVers and home builders.