Forterra (formerly Cascade Land Conservancy) partnered with Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS), Snohomish County (SC), and the landowners to protect and restore the Smoke Farm North Floodplain. Funding from NRCS leveraged SRFB funding by contributing approximately 75% of the fee simple value of the land and the majority of restoration funding. The Smoke Farm North Floodplain Restoration project acquired a Wetland Reserve Program easement and remainder fee interest on 130 acres of floodplain. It planted 15 acres of existing side channel habitat on the property with native vegetation and conducted a hydrologic study for future dike breaching restoration. All three components were required in order to promote full restoration of floodplain connectivity and complexity, including a ¾-mile stretch along the North Fork Stillaguamish River northeast of Arlington, WA. The property supports features critical for maintaining habitat-forming processes, including 50 acres of riparian forest that contribute LWD, a side channel slough, and an active beaver dam. The Smoke Farm project sought to address limiting factors of the North Fork Stillaguamish. Side-channel sloughs and active beaver ponds, such as those found on Smoke Farm, provide rearing habitat and refugia for juvenile coho and other salmonids. Over 85% of beaver ponds and 31% of side channel sloughs have been eliminated due to diking and filling, and over 90% of historic riparian habitat has been eliminated. This project helped to restore and maintain rearing habitat and refugia, floodplain connectivity and complexity, and historic riparian diversity that are critical for maintaining and creating high-quality habitat for Chinook, coho, chum, cutthroat, steelhead, and bull trout.