Summary: This landowner is an active member of the Community Nearshore Restoration Program and recruited the neighbor who is located on the adjacent property. They completed their plantings together by planting shared spaces between driveways and across the road as well as their individual shorelines. The landowners chose to complete the project of a combined 100 feet of saltwater shoreline to enhance marine wildlife habitat, improve shoreline stability, and to use native vegetation to help manage storm water runoff on their property. They planted three sites by providing 25 hours of their time and using the cost share program from the Mason Conservation District. The Mason Conservation District provided a Conservation Planting Plan that is designed to provide guidance on the addition of appropriate native plants for the site. To continue to build the riparian area, a relationship has been developed between the landowner, Mason Conservation District, Woodbrook Nursery and Belfair Valley Nursery.

Restoration: Rhododendron macrophyllum (Pacific Rhododendron), Lilium columbianum (Tiger Lily), Corylus cornuta (Beaked Hazel), Carex lyngbyei (Lyngby's Sedge), Armeria maritime (Sea Thrift), Menziesia ferruginea (Fools Huckleberry), Ribes aureum (Golden Currant), Lonicera involucrate (Black Twinberry), Rosa gymnocarpa (Dwarf Rose), Cornus stolonifera (Redtwig Dogwood), Cornus stolonifera 'Flaviramea' (Yellow Twig Dogwood), Rhododendron occidentale (Western Azalea), Arctostaphylos uva-ursi (Kinnikinnick), Xerophyllum tenax (Beargrass), Ribes lacustre (Swamp Currant), Rosa nutkana (Nootka Rose), Potentilla fruiticosa (Shrubby Cinquefoil), Erigeron speciosus (Showy Fleabane), Grindelia integrifolia (Puget Gumplant), Rubus Parviflorus (Thimbleberry), Camassia leichtlini (Great Camas), Lewisia cotyledon (Siskiyou Bitterroot), Junperous scopulorum (Rocky Mountain Juniper), Abies amabilis (Pacific Silver Fir), Aquilegia Formosa (Western Columbine), Potentilla fruiticosa (Shrubby Cinquefoil), Potentilla gracillis (Graceful Cinquefoil), Cornus stolonifera (Redtwig Dogwood), Erigeron speciosus (Showy Fleabane), Viola glabella (Yellow Wood Violet), Viola palustris (Marsh Violet), Geum Triflorum (Prairie Smoke), Blechum spicant (Deer Fern), Viburnum opulus (Highbush Cranberry), Maianthemum dilatatum (False lily-of-the-valley), Vancouveria hexandra, (Inside-out Flowers), Crataegus douglassii (Western Hawthorn), Holodiscus discolor (Ocean Spray), Amelanchier alnifolia (Serviceberry), Thalictrum occidentale (Western Meadowrue), Sisyrinchium idahoense (Idaho Blue-eyed-grass), Calocedrus decurrens (Incense Cedar), Prunus virginiana (Chokecherry), Gaultheria procumbens (Wintergreen), Caltha leptosepala (Marshmarigold), Sambucus caerulea (Blue Elderberry).

Project Sponsors: Mason Conservation District/Critical Area Buffer Restoration, Hood Canal Coordinating Council/Marine Riparian Initiative

Funders: National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, Community Salmon Fund and WA Department of Ecology and the Hood Canal Coordinating Council.