Snohomish County used this grant to develop a preliminary design and preliminary environmental review for restoration on Smith Island. The restoration work includes breaching up to 5,000 linear feet of dikes, building up to 9,100 linear feet of set back dikes, filling/blocking a drainage ditch network, enhancing tidal channels and their connection to Union Slough, adding logjams, enhancing edge habitat complexity, and planting native vegetation. The project ultimately will restore more than 400 acres of tidal marsh, a significant percentage of the 1,200-acre target in the Snohomish Basin Salmon Conservation Plan. The project will help address the loss of about 85 percent of the basin’s estuarine wetlands, a key factor contributing to the decline of Chinook salmon.