Whidbey Camano Land Trust acquired a restrictive conservation easement allowing salmon restoration on 30.26-acres containing a former pocket estuary (longshore lagoon) in Island County. The WRIA 6 Salmon Recovery Plan and Skagit Recovery Plan list this project as a high priority for protection and restoration. The project purpose was to protect nearshore processes and habitats beneficial to juvenile and adult salmon. The primary goal was to protect degraded habitat (the pocket lagoon and connection to Skagit Bay) from further degradation with the future intent to restore salmon habitat values by reconnecting the pocket estuary to the Bay. The Skagit River Cooperative selected this site to conduct the feasibility analysis required in its Skagit Bay Pocket Estuary Assessment SRFB grant. The result was a 30% restoration design. The property is a high priority juvenile salmon and forage fish protection area. It's within an ebb tide (day’s migration) from Skagit River Delta which is very important for migrating juvenile Chinook salmon. The project protected 128 feet on Skagit Bay and is adjacent to 4,000+ feet of Island County tidelands with continuous eelgrass beds that are important herring and surf smelt spawning areas. Part of the property was zoned for high density Rural Residential; the rest was Rural 5 acres. It’s in the nearshore habitat zone, which provides the greatest number of functions to the greatest number of salmon and trout stocks and life history stages in WRIA 6.