An assessment of riparian vegetation in the Nisqually watershed was completed in 2004. There is a need to groundtruth the assessment, identify priority revegetation areas, and organize and implement projects. In addition, monitoring of invasive plants that threaten ecosystem processes and habitat must be ongoing, and most restoration plantings require several years of maintenance to ensure project success. An invasive management plan needs to be developed that prioritizes weed species and areas for control and outlines control measures. This will fund 1 FTE biologist to develop and implement a watershed vegetation management plan and a 3 FTE crew to plant and maintain a minimum of 15 acres of riparian vegetation annually and control invasive plants in the watershed. The crew in particular is key to our long term success with vegetation projects. Without proper maintenance many revegetation projects will fail.