King County used this funding to acquire 6.43 acres of habitat along the Cedar River, including 0.18 mile of riverine habitat. Of the total Dorre Don Meanders Reach, almost half is already protected and consists of floodplain, side channel, and riverine habitats that is among the largest area of protected salmonid habitat within the lower Cedar River. The remaining unprotected portions of the reach include unbroken stretches of mainstem riverine habitat up to 800 feet in length and side channel areas located on multiple parcels of approximately 5 acres. The Cedar River supports one of the few known native runs of Chinook in the WRIA and adds to the base of protected habitat area for coho, steelhead, sockeye, resident trout, and wildlife. The Cedar River Council supported this project. The outcome of this project was to permanently protect additional valuable habitat in this reach thus creating a significantly sized core habitat for salmonids in the lower Cedar River. The reach approach acknowledges that salmonid habitat and its protection nearly always requires working at a larger geographic scale than that of a single parcel or non-contiguous parcels. The strategy is to focus on the overall reach and achieve protection of the reach a few parcels at a time.