This multi-component, multi-partner project will improve salmon habitat and ecosystem functions on the Lower Hoko River and estuary (RM 0 to 3.75) and the lower reaches of the Little Hoko River (RM 0 to 1). The project will restore up to 3.75 miles of the Lower Hoko River, which includes estuarine, floodplain, riparian and riverine habitat up to the confluence with Little Hoko River and restore riparian habitat on 1 mile of the Little Hoko River. The project will reconnect up to 180 acres of floodplain and off-channel wetland habitat. The riparian phase of the project will restore 37 acres of riparian habitat on private, tribal and State Parks properties.

Acquisition will provide long-term protection for Hoko floodplain habitat through fee simple and conservation easements on Lower Hoko properties, particularly for those parcels identified as priorities in the Western Straits Conservation Plan due to their value as salmon habitat. Extending the area to the confluence of the Little Hoko will include the number 1, 5, 6, 8, and 9 ranked parcels for all of WRIA 19.
Restoration will accelerate the recovery of natural processes through the addition of large wood, removal of abandoned railroad grades and associated infrastructure, and fill impacts, and will increase the quality and quantity of riparian habitat through native tree plantings. Restoration and acquisition will likely be accomplished in partnership with the Lower Elwha Klallam and Makah Tribes, North Olympic Land Trust, North Olympic Salmon Coalition, and Washington State Parks.