The project protected high quality riparian habitat and created the opportunity to restore side-channel habitat within Focus Area 7, as identified in the WRIA 7 Near Term Action Agenda. This project accomplishes the first element of projects 30 and 31 by acquiring habitat adjacent to the Snoqualmie River. With this grant, King County purchased a Conservation Easement on 25.8 acres along the Snoqualmie River. King County already owns 100 acres within Focus Area 7, protecting 33% of the riparian corridor in the reach. Approximately half of the Snoqualmie portion of the Snohomish Fall Chinook run spawned in this reach in 2000. The WDFW estimate of the chinook escapement fro the Snoqualmie Basin in 2000 was 1427 fish. Protecting the riparian buffer will preserve woody debris delivery potential, maintain the capacity of the floodplain to trap nutrients, and preserve shading and edge complexity functions. Creating the opportunity to restore side-channel habitat enables the restoration of in-stream habitat diversity to the reach. Increased in-stream habitat diversity will increase the availability of scarce rearing and refuge habitats and restore spawning habitat for species such as chum and pink salmon. Portions of the property are intensively utilized at present. The proposal includes funding to begin restoration of these areas through planting native species, such as cottonweed, alder, red osier dogwood, Sitka spruce, and western red cedar.