The non-profit, Hood Canal Salmon Enhancement Group, completed the final design plans to restore the lower reaches of Big Beef Creek (WRIA: 15.0389) between RM 0.3 and 1.0, adjacent to the UW's Fish Research Facility in Kitsap County, near Seabeck, WA. The creek has experienced habitat issues limiting salmonid productivity due to human activities that took place over forty years ago, specifically stream channelization and simplification and the removal of large woody debris. This planning project completed the final design plans and survey work to restore properly functioning floodplain and channel conditions. The plans include the removal of a well access road which has channelized the creek, and removal of two UW buildings and 3,300 cubic yards of fill material they reside on. The plan also includes instream habitat enhancements which would add about 20 large woody debris structures to increase complexity to the system within the current anadromous reach. This will allow Big Beef Creek to access more of its historic floodplain and open up 14 acres of habitat which could benefit a diversity of species including ESA-listed Hood Canal Summer Chum salmon, steelhead and Coho. Many partnerships cooperatively work together to enumerate salmonids and measure population-level responses to habitat restoration in this system. Lessons learned and empirical data obtained through intensive monitoring efforts on BBC will be a model on how to approach similar projects.