The overall Nelsen Side Channel Salmon Habitat project intends to create rare off-channel rearing habitat and restore riparian forest. The project will set back the levee and reconnect the river with its historic channel to benefit threatened juvenile Chinook salmon and other salmonids. The design will include off-channel habitat to provide forage opportunities and refugia during the high flows of the early out-migration period and will include planting for the riparian and upland areas surrounding the side channel, and along the mainstem of the Green River, as well as large wood placement to provide food sources, wood recruitment and refuge for juvenile Chinook.