The Clearwater River Floodplain Restoration Project addressed major limiting habitat factors and impaired processes on the Clearwater River between river mile 2.3 and 3.8 through strategic placement of large wood structures and removal of nearly a mile of road from the historic floodplain. Historically, the Clearwater River meandered through a forested valley floor with large trees, a dense canopy, and a system of branching channels. The advent of timber harvest in the watershed and construction of a rail line (now road) in the Clearwater River floodplain for transport of timber in the early 1900s removed critical riparian structure from the valley floor and confined the floodplain. Loss of the riparian buffer has resulted in easily erodible banks due to root loss and associated soil cohesion, dramatic reductions in large wood debris recruitment to the stream channel, and loss of overhanging vegetation. The project installed 28 wood structures of varying types and sizes to meter natural wood through the system, trap sediment, and aggrade incised sections of the channel for the long term reconnection of a network of 19 side channels in the floodplain. The project also removed nearly a mile of stream adjacent road from the floodplain.