With the help of local organizations, King County, WRIA8, and Forterra, the City of Bothell acquired the former Wayne Golf Course to prevent one of the last natural spaces along the Sammamish River from becoming housing, advance environmental sustainability, and restore salmon habitat. Phases in this project include acquisition, design, and restoration construction. Waynita Creek, a tributary of the Sammamish River, is located within the area and has been modified by historic agricultural practices and golf course activities. Waynita Creek is considered a fish habitat and will benefit ESA-listed Puget Sound Chinook salmon and other severely declining threatened and vital keystone salmonids and trout species of local, state, or federal importance. The overall goals will be to restore and enhance habitat to provide refuge and rearing areas for salmonids migrating in the Sammamish River. This includes widening the Waynita Creek confluence and creating deeper pools, improving in-stream habitat complexity with a large wood refuge, increasing and reactivating floodplain connectivity and hyporheic connection improving cold-water inputs, restoring and increasing wetlands, daylight and reconnecting two tributaries to Wayna Creek, plant a forested riparian corridor along Waynita Creek between the Sammamish River and the forested uplands and providing passive recreational opportunities while balancing the protection of an environmentally sensitive area.