The project goal is to restore process-based ecological functions that include wetlands and riparian restoration on the Enumclaw Plateau. King County will construct this project in a predominantly agricultural area. Historic stream and floodplain activities to expand agricultural areas have resulted in the removal of riparian vegetation and instream wood. This stream system, important to many fish and wildlife species, has temperatures and fecal coliform concentrations that typically exceed state standards. Nine landowners have previously participated in this revegetation effort which has been underway for three years. King County intends to continue to recruit landowners along Newaukum Creek to participate in this program. This project would improve riparian habitat with the following actions:

*Enhance and expand the degraded plateau wetlands adjacent to Newaukum Creek by constructing wetlands and removing invasive plants and replanting with native vegetation, which will provide structural diversity for the wetlands and increase flow attenuation;

*Enhance and expand the riparian vegetation zone of the plateau section of Newaukum Creek to provide a strip of healthy riparian vegetation up to 200 feet wide;

*Protect stream buffer areas to exclude livestock through fencing; and

*Restore and create connections to off-channel wetland habitats for salmonids

This project is funded by the Community Salmon Fund a program of the National Fish & Widlife Foundation in partnership with the Salmon Recovery Funding Board.