The North Olympic Salmon Coalition (NOSC) is proposing riparian planting to take place on Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) property in lower Snow Creek as well as a private parcel on Salmon Creek. On WDFW property, planting will increase the vegetated riparian area and floodplain for lower Snow Creek by 7 acres. On private property, planting will re-vegetate a steepened right bank of Salmon Creek and establish conifers in an existing deciduous dominant riparian forest for a total of 5 acres. A total of 0.7 miles of stream bank will be planted. The project will maintain both sites for two growing seasons. These watersheds are one of the priority habitats for one of the 8 extant populations of Hood Canal Summer Chum. Extensive work has been done to protect and restore habitat in these watersheds. This proposal is another step in recovering the ecosystem for summer chum, steelhead, coho and cutthroat. The Summer Chum Recovery plan identifies loss of channel complexity and degraded riparian conditions as habitat limiting factors in these two watersheds. Riparian habitats are the most fundamental building block for protecting and restoring aquatic freshwater and marine ecosystems and the species that depend on them.