Riparian habitats are the most fundamental building block for protecting aquatic freshwater and marine ecosystems and the species that depend on them. Virtually all watershed assessments and species recovery plans from landscape to reach to watershed scales call for improving riparian habitat quality/quantity and reducing their increasing fragmentation.

The primary objectives are:
1. Improve the quantity and quality of riparian areas
2. Move riparian areas toward a later seral stage to achieve water quality and habitat benefits for summer chum and other salmonids

This project is a part of the larger Summer Chum Riparian - East Jefferson project. A WA Conservation Corps Crew performed plant removal (site prep) and alder thinning in the winter of 2009-2010. In March 2010 they planted about 3,000 conifers (Western Red Cedar, Sitka Spruce and Grand Fir). Maintenance will occur in 2010.


This project can be found in the Recreation and Conservation Office's Project Information System (PRISM) as #09-1657.