North Olympic Salmon Coalition (NOSC), in partnership with Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife and Jefferson Conservation District, used this funding to plant 31 acres of riparian area along Lower Salmon and Snow Creeks and to implement multiple estuary restoration projects covering between 5 and 12 acres on land acquired in part with Salmon Recovery Funding Board grants. The partners provided a long-term vision for restoring Lower Snow and Salmon Creeks and their common estuary, and for implementing the most effective projects identified by the Chumsortium. The project objectives were: · Determine the final design for several high priority estuarine restoration actions · Plan for future restoration actions, including at least partial removal of railroad grade · Determine the feasibility of reconnecting and restoring lower Salmon and Snow Creeks given historical reference conditions and contemporary constraints · Remove fill from salt marsh and tidal channels, restore and revegetate shorelines, and remove abandoned buildings · Extend riparian planting to 180' on each side of the new Salmon Creek channel · Extend Snow Creek riparian planting to 180' from the existing channel. Wider forested riparian areas will address a limiting factor and benefit ESA-listed summer chum in both streams, as well as coho, steelhead and cutthroat Work was directed by the local Chumsortium and administered by NOSC as Phase IV of a decade of on-going recovery efforts.