The Land Trust completed outreach to the fourteen landowners whose properties are within the area identified for potential future phases of the Lower Ohop Creek Restoration project. Outreach was focused on identifying landowners interested in working with the Land Trust to permanently protect their land and provide opportunities for habitat restoration through conservation easement or fee acquisition by the Land Trust. The primary focus of the restoration project is to restore instream and floodplain habitat for ESA listed salmonids, including Chinook and steelhead. Ohop Creek is one of the major tributaries to the Nisqually River and provides spawning and rearing habitat for all of the salmonid species in the Nisqually Watershed. Restoration partners have completed the realignment of the creek downstream of this proposed project area and have established native floodplain vegetation throughout 180 acres surrounding the restored creek channel. This project included initial due diligence and negotiations with two landowners in the project area. These properties total 90 acres and includes 0.94 miles of Ohop Creek shoreline. It is anticipated that acquisition of these properties will be completed by mid-2019 under WA RCO #18-1368 and a WA Ecology Streamflow Restoration grant.