The conservation project will protect over 2,800 linear feet of critical, Strait of Juan de Fuca shoreline, which is an important migratory corridor for salmon in the western Strait. It also includes more than 16 acres of nearshore habitat including eelgrass beds and surf smelt spawning beaches. There are 14,000 linear feet on the west side of the West Twin River and tributaries, and the Twin Rivers is one of the most important coho and steelhead systems in the Strait of Juan de Fuca. It also includes a shoreline that is also highly valued for recreational crabbing, smelting, surfing, and fossil hunting. The project involves land acquisition of all or part of the former LaFarge mine site, with particular focus on the West Twin riparian corridor. Lafarge owns 92.18 acres, including the 5.6-acre mole, north of Highway 112, and 123.96 acres south of Highway 112, 216.14 acres total. Under a WA Department of Natural Resources lease, alumina and silica was mined for cement. The mole, an overwater fill structure, was constructed in the 1960s by Ideal Cement to assist in the removal of clay for alumina and silica by barge. Ideal Cement later sold to Holderbank North America, which sold to LaFarge in 1998. LaFarge did not need this property, so mining ceased, though the DNR aquatic lease is still active. In 2011, thanks to an RCO planning grant (11-1341P), the Land Trust was able to plan the conservation component in great detail. The intent was, when the mole is restored, the Land Trust would already have much of the documentation drafted and be "shovel ready" to conserve the restored property. During summer 2017 the nearshore restoration of the Twins was completed. Approximately 25,000 cubic yards of armor, sheetpile, tie backs, concrete and anchors were removed from the perimeter of the earthen loading pier such that the clean fill within could erode and replenish sediment starved beaches in the drift cell. Now the tides will rework the clean sediment to nourish beaches in the drift cell.