The development of restoration projects requires extensive landowner communications to foster interest, participation, and commitment. Important steps to advance projects towards implementation include expert site visits, communications to address concerns and explain the benefits, and feasibility and/or conceptual designs to identify alternatives. In order to advance multiple priority restoration projects toward the implementation stage, FRIENDS partnered with interested public and private landowners and coastal geologists to conduct site visits, feasibility studies, and conceptual designs. Restoration cultivation efforts occurred in priority nearshore habitats that are located in identified salmon recovery shoreforms, regions, and at documented forage fish spawning beaches in San Juan County, Washington. Friends of the San Juans has a solid track record of identifying, fostering, and implementing nearshore restoration projects with both public and private landowners. To reduce administrative expenses and provide more direct funding for salmon recovery, project sponsors combined multiple nearshore restoration feasibility, plans and designs into one project proposal. Funding supported restoration cultivation actions with private landowners including neighborhood events, site visits, feasibility studies, and conceptual designs; intertidal debris removal plans to rehabilitate forage fish spawning habitat along three shoreline road segments with SJC Public Works; and conceptual designs for two projects on Sucia Island with WA State Parks. In addition, riparian restoration priorities were mapped for forage fish spawning beaches (over hanging vegetation) and feeder bluffs (riparian buffer conditions).