In Commencement Bay in front of Marine View Drive. Create intertidal habitat adjacent to the Trustee's area. Foss Log storage - $50K per acre.

This project proposes the acquisition of ~17 acres of nearshore and upland feeder streams along ~0.75 miles of the northeast shoreline of Commencement Bay. The Foss property is located along the Outer Hylebos which stretches from the mouth of the Hylebos Waterway to Browns Point. Habitat along the shoreline consists of narrow intertidal and shallow subtidal stretches of nearshore broken by commercial marinas and log storage activities.

Recent restoration efforts in Commencement Bay have created a patchwork corridor of habitat benefiting salmonids. Site monitoring of nearby NRDA restoration sites indicates out-migrating juvenile salmonids use this subtidal habitat for refuge and foraging.

Acquisition of the Foss property is critical for a proposed restoration project to reuse native sediment materials to create shallow subtidal habitat-including the reestablishment of fringe marsh and to provide deep water artificial reefs-for salmon and their prey species. Estuarine habitat creation is the most beneficial type of action needed for recovery of Chinook to occur in the Puyallup/White River watershed. The Pierce County Lead Entity identified the project area as a near-term priority to be addressed in the next 10 years. They ranked Marine View Tidelands, known as the Outer Hylebos project, among the top 10 most effective actions for recovering the Puyallup, Lower White and Upper White Chinook; listed as threatened under the ESA and as a species of concern by WDFW.