This project is part of a long term effort to improve salmon habitat in the South Fork Pysht River, the largest tributary to the Pysht River. We propose to construct 150 engineered logjams in the SF Pysht River between River Mile 0.5-5.0. The project will occur in partnership with Merrill and Ring who own all the lands in project reach. Since 1994, Merrill and Ring and the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe have conducted a series of cooperative restoration projects focusing on large wood and riparian restoration at multiple sites in the watershed. On the SF Pysht River (Phase 1), large wood has been previously added to four reaches between River Mile 0.5-7.0 in 1994, 1996 and 2006. On the mainstem Pysht River, large wood has been added on two reaches (river miles 7.0-9.0 and 10.0-11.5) in 2011 and 2018. Monitoring has shown that these projects have been successful in restoring channel and riparian habitat features favored by salmon for spawning and rearing. Because of the scale and extent of historic logging and stream cleaning practices, the entire watershed remains chronically deficient of in-channel LWD (McHenry et al. 1994, WRIA 19 Salmon Recovery Plan, LEKT 2023) and the age and composition of riparian forests is currently not adequate to support habitat forming processes. This project will work toward re-establishing the historic habitat complexity of large wood in the lower SF Pysht and will work towards shifting the riparian forest trajectory to a late successional composition to improve future natural recruitment of LWD.