This is a Wild Fish Conservancy proposed project to naturalize a ~1500 foot long ditched reach near the mouth of Langlois Creek, an important salmon spawning and rearing tributary to the Snoqualmie River. This project is in the feasibility and design phase. Elements of the restoration will include constructing a sinuous stream channel, adding large woody debris, and planting 8 acres of native riparian corridor. The 1500 linear foot long project reach lacks habitat complexity, and the riparian buffer consists almost entirely of reed canarygrass. Proposed restoration elements will increase the quantity and quality of instream habitat available to fish, improve water quality by shading theopen channel, improve bank stability, and increase allochthonous inputsthat are critical to local food web dynamics. The project will also improve fish passage through the project reach, providing better adult salmon and steelhead access to important spawning reaches upstream. Wildfish Conservancy is lead project sponsor on this project and has funding pending from the WA State Salmon Recovery Funding Board, CWM and NAWCA. EarthCorps proposes to use funding from NOAA to provide crews to
support the installation of the naturalized creek channel, where appropriate, installing large woody debris, and conducting the invasive
species control and installing native plants in the riparian buffers. Wild Fish Conservancy will perform baseline and post-project water
temperature monitoring using Onset data loggers.