Summary: This landowner is a member of the Hood Canal Coordinating Council's Community Nearshore Restoration Program and recruited the adjacent landowner to complete a planting that would provide native vegetation to both shores of Dalby Creek that drains into Hood Canal. The landowners chose to complete the project on their combined 200 feet of saltwater shoreline by volunteering 10 hours of time to the planting of native vegetation to increased salmon habitat, enhance wildlife habitat, and improve stability along the banks by improving root mass in the soils. 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, Belfair Valley Nursery and a local landscaping service.

Restoration: This site was planted with Polystichum munitum (Western Sword Fern), Ribes sanguineum (Red Flowering Currant), Blechnum spicant (Deer Fern) Dryopteris erythrosora (Autumn Fern), Vaccinium parvifolium (Huckleberry), Physocarpus capitatus (Pacific Ninebark).

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.