Whidbey Camano Land Trust acquired 40 acres of upland and 44 acres (2,200+ feet) of Skagit Bay tidelands. The project purpose is to protect nearshore processes and habitats beneficial to juvenile and adult salmon. The nearshore habitat provides the greatest number of functions to the greatest number of salmon and trout stocks and life history stages in WRIA 6. A primary project goal is to protect degraded habitat (diked land on Skagit Bay) from development with the future goal to restore habitat for salmon by taking out roads, dikes, and restoring habitat functions. This nearshore is a high protection priority for juvenile salmon and forage fish. It is within an ebb tide (day’s migration) from the Skagit River Delta. Its location near the mouth of the North Fork Skagit River is particularly important as it is part of a distributory pathway where density dependent migration of fry migrant Chinook salmon is the highest within the Skagit tidal delta (Beamer et al 2005). The project is adjacent to continuous eelgrass beds and nearshore that are priority herring and smelt spawning areas. The project, with 4,000+ feet of shoreline on Skagit Bay is next to 4,000+ feet of Island County-owned tidelands.