The Hood Canal SEG "Big Quilcene River Linger Longer Reach Feasibility Study & Action Plan" determined that the river in the project area is confined by two levees and is too narrow and straight for good salmonid habitat. Banks are armored with riprap, pools are relatively rare and shallow, it is gravel bedded but has no gravel bars. Shading areas are generally low as there are only a few trees. Summer water temperatures are higher than optimal for salmon and the lack of large trees makes LWD recruitment improbable. This project leads to the acquisition of parcels along the lower Big Quilcene River below Linger Longer Road and the estuary in order to allow floodplain and channel restoration. The goal of the project is to protect degraded habitat from further degradation with the intent to restore the habitat. The objective of the project is to protect degraded salmon refugia, with the intention of restoring key ecological processes in the future.