The property under consideration of restoration is owned by WSDOT. Revegetation of tidal mud flats to encourage development of marsh habitat.

The Hylebos Salt Marsh project seeks to enhance a 2-acre mud flat at the mouth of Hylebos Creek to provide greater habitat for native salmon, forage fish and wildlife. Work will involve re-grading a portion of the mud flats to provide elevation suitable to marsh vegetation and processes, excavation of channel habitat to provide greater fish usage of the site, and revegetation of marsh and riparian habitat with appropriate native vegetation.

The site provides a critical opportunity for Hylebos Creek habitat, as it will restore rare habitat essential to salmon restoration - more than 90% of creek's original estuarine marsh habitat has been lost - as well as a host of other species. The restoration work will also benefit from major habitat restoration being planned or previously completed by other entities at adjacent properties.