The goal of this project is to acquire over 350 acres of diked land in the Snohomish River estuary for the purpose of restoring an estuarine tidal marsh. The Snohomish Basin Salmonid Recovery Technical Committee has identified artifical barriers to access (e.g. dikes, tide-gates, pump-station) and the loss of wetlands within estuarine habitats as factors contributing to the decline of chinook salmon (1999). Haas et al. (2001) estimated that the Snohomish estuary has lost approximately eight-five percent of its tidal marsh and at least 50 percent of its smolt production capacity for Chinook since the late 19th century. The analysis suggests that as a result of this loss, the estuary may commonly constrain production of chinook salmon from the Snohomish River basin. This site is one of the largest undeveloped properties in the Snohomish River estuary within private ownership. Its acquisition would enable restoration of tidal marsh including the reconnection of one of the largest blind tidal slough channels in the estuary. Blind tidal channels within estuarine marsh are used by salmonids for rearing and making the physiological transition from fresh to salt water. Restoration of the site would also involve replanting riparian forest cover representative of the historic forest composition and increasing edge habitat complexity along the site's boundary with Union Slough.