Nisqually Land Trust and the Nisqually River Foundation will use PSAR PIDA funding to support the success of the proposed Busy Wild Creek protection project (14-1688). Activities will focus on drafting a Forest Management Plan to establish and develop the Nisqually Community Forest as a management entity for the Busy Wild Creek protection project (PRISM Attachment #209287 for more information). The associated Busy Wild Creek protection project (14-1688) proposes to permanently protect and restore 1,920 acres of timberlands that include both banks of 2.41 miles of upper Busy Wild Creek (the headwaters of the Mashel River, which in turn is the main tributary to the Nisqually River) and 12.92 miles of feeder streams. Future protection and restoration of habitat for threatened salmon in the Busy Wild sub-basin are identified as a highest priority in the Nisqually Chinook Recovery Plan and the Nisqually Steelhead Recovery Plan. The Busy Wild Creek property is located one mile north of Ashford, Washington, and three miles west of the main entrance to Mount Rainier National Park. It has been managed as industrial timberland since the 1940s. It will be acquired to remove the immediate threat of further timber harvest and stream siltation and to secure the property for future restoration.