DESCRIPTION
This project would excavate backwater off-channel flood refugium to create juvenile salmonid rearing habitat, restore floodplain wetland habitat, add large wood, and plant native wetland and riparian vegetation at the Horsehead/Horseneck site.
This project is one of three separate but related projects in the Horsehead Bend/Horseneck area (LG-3 and LG-5). The further development and implementation of one or more of these projects will require further discussion among King County land managers because the Horsehead Bend and Horseneck parcels are managed for different purposes. Further discussion will identify the best ways to manage the two properties to meet four goals:
1) Restoring salmon habitat
2) Preserving the agricultural land base
3) Meeting recreational land uses (by extending the Green River Trail)
4) Providing for flood protection
NOTES
Deed restrictions on the Horseneck property, limiting use to agriculture as a Farmland Preservation Property, would need to be accomodated in order to increase salmon habitat as an additional use.
Salmon habitat restoration may provide an opportunity to improve drainage on adjacent farmland.
Lower Green River Tier 1
