Skagit Conservation District partnered with the USFS on a design and permit project for erosion reduction to reduce the risk of road failures and its negative effects to fish habitat in the upper Illabot Creek basin. The project designed and permitted a project to upgrade and decommison Illabot Road #16 from MP 9.5-24. The three phased design work includes culvert removal and replacement with rocked rolling dips, ditching and fill stabilization, and providing alternative public access up West Jordon Road, a DNR system. Chinook, Dolly Varden, coho, sea run and resident cutthroat, and rainbow (steelhead) trout utilize this area. This project targeted the limiting factor of egg to fry survival due to sedimentation impacts to native Chinook, Coho, steelhead and Dolly Varden redds. This project was identified following 2009 storm damage and the 1996 landslide sediment delivery report(Paulson, K. 1996). This project addressed 16.07 miles of medium risk road segments that drain into Illabot Creek. Road #16 had drainage correction improvements and road upgrades to standard in 1992. Road maintnenace had become harder to accomplish with the increased frequencey of storms and limited FS engineering staff. This project targeted reducing a remote forest road system.