Northwest Watershed Institute (NWI) proposes to remove the largest bulkhead and restore one of the most impacted shorelines remaining within the state's Dabob Bay Natural Area, which is otherwise one of the least developed estuarine embayments remaining in Puget Sound and a high priority for landscape scale conservation. NWI proposes to purchase 17 acres of shoreline property comprised of three adjoining parcels and fully restore them by removing all structures and roads, removing the 10 foot high, 400 foot long bulkhead and backfill, restoring site topography, and re-vegetating the site with native tree and shrub species. In Phase II of this Portfolio project, not proposed for funding here, NWI proposes to conduct two additional years of weed control, supplemental planting, and baseline monitoring. After restoration, NWI plans to steward the property and use it for overland access to 65 acres of adjoining state tidelands to be leased separately by NWI for commercial shellfish production, Olympia oyster restoration, and NWI's environmental education programs. The project will benefit a diversity of fish and wildlife. Removal of the bulkhead and associated backfill and beachhouse, which extends into nearshore habitat, will help restore sediment supply processes and fine grain beaches for spawning by sandlance and surf smelt. The project will improve nearshore habitat for juvenile rearing of federally threatened Hood Canal summer chum salmon and Puget Sound Chinook which use Dabob Bay shorelines as non-natal rearing habitat.