This project acquired two properties, four parcels, totaling 3.75 acres, to protect and later restore Chinook salmon habitat at river mile 13.19 to 14.19 on the Cedar River in WRIA 8 (King County). Under its Cedar River Watershed Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP) Seattle Public Utilities is engaged in land acquisition for salmon habitat protection and restoration in the lower Cedar River, below its municipal watershed ownership boundary at the Landsburg Diversion Dam. After the December 2008 flood, several property owners in the Royal Arch Reach (River Mile13.19 to 14.19) expressed interest in selling their property. To date, SPU has acquired 7.03 acres of riverfront property in this reach and has an additional 1.21 acres under contract. The Royal Arch Reach provides promising habitat restoration opportunities to benefit Chinook salmon. For example, a geomorphic feature on one targeted parcel likely marks an historic river channel, providing a potential side channel development opportunity for Chinook spawning and rearing and high flow refuge for juveniles. This reach was inundated during the December 2008 flood, demonstrating the river’s inclination to migrate outside its current main channel location. Acquisition of these parcels would provide restoration opportunities that would enable the river to migrate in the floodplain, thereby increasing habitat complexity, including off-channel features, large wood, pools and riffles, and improved gravel recruitment.