The Vashon-Maury Island Land Trust, with the help of volunteers, conservation crews, and island contractors, was able to stabilize over 15,000 square feet of unstable slope in the Needle Creek drainage. The project planted 5,000 trees over 31 acres of alder-dominated forest to encourage a layer of conifer regeneration, constructed 16 in-stream sediment control structures along 500
feet of the nick point tributary, and planted nearly an acre along the top of the steep slope that leads into the nick point ravine with 300 native plants and trees as well as 500 bare root trees and shrubs in the slide areas. They mapped the drain tiles on the upper plateau and collaborated with colleagues about possible drainage fixes.

This project was funded through the Community Salmon Fund and was completed in December 2009.