Stream fencing installed in the mid 1990's by the Jobs For Environment Crew included in this project. Fences where redone and planting installed.

This is part of the larger Summer Chum Riparian Restoration- East Jefferson project

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

The project seeks to fund one Washington State Conservation Corps (WCC) crew for one year to implement the project scope. Additional private contractors may be hired to perform some of the tasks where necessary. The tasks of the project scope are: 1) tree planting; 2) site preparation and maintenance for planting; 3) invasive, non-native vegetation inventory and control; 4) instream and estuarine restoration such as hand placement of woody debris and removal of in channel invasives; and 5) monitoring implementation and effectiveness.