Skagit Land Trust, a private non-profit land conservation organization, proposed to conduct an inventory of private lands along the mainstem and major tributaries of the Skagit River between the towns of Sedro-Woolley and Concrete. The purpose of this inventory was to locate and prioritize the most important parcels for the protection of salmon habitat and to contact and identify those landowners willing to sell property interests on key parcels. The products from this work included: 1) an inventory and assessment ranking 197 floodplain privately owned parcels between Sedro-Woolley and Concrete. This created a ranked list of parcels, with the top third of the list, 60 parcels, considered the most important for acquisition ; 2) Negotiations with eleven willing landowners of high-ranking properties were conducted; 3) three acquisition proposals were made to SRFB, and two proposals to Seattle City Light for acquistion of these highest ranked parcels with willing sellers This ultimately resulted in the acquisition of four properties in-fee and one conservation easement by SLT (Dickenson/Minkler Lake; Pritchard/Grandy Creek; Sundstrom/Kosbab Slough; White/Day Creek Slough; Elysian Meadows CE); and two properties by Seattle City Light (Hoy/Iron Mountain Ranch and Vandersaar), protecting a total of 720 acres. This project implemented Skagit Watershed Council's Restoration and Protection Plan by systematically identifying and protecting some of the best remaining "key habitat" for protection in one of the Councils strategic plan "target areas," where past habitat protection efforts have been limited. It was also intended to serve as a model, and pilot project, for possible application in other target areas within the watershed, which eventually resulted in similar assessments in the Upper Skagit and the Sauk River by TNC and SWC.