Lake Chelan Sportsmen Association used this funding for the Beebe Creek channel reconfiguration. This project represented an opportunity to convert a spring-fed tributary to the Columbia River mainstem into a productive spawning stream that serves as an important rearing habitat and thermal refuge for juvenile salmonids, while building community support for salmon restoration projects. Beebe Creek is a spring-fed creek that produces consistent quantities of cold water throughout the heat of summer, provides a locally important aquatic habitat and is currently used by steelhead trout, Chinook, and coho salmon for both spawning and juvenile rearing. Channelized for agricultural purposes, Beebe Creek flowed through a straight, ditch-like course with limited spawning substrates, little overhead cover, and degraded riparian conditions. The restoration constructed a new floodplain and hyporheic zone with enhanced sinuosity patterns, more than doubling the length of the existing stream while maximizing spawning and rearing opportunities for salmonids. The additional wetland and riparian areas created as a result of this project protect this unique cold water resource and enhance shoreline habitat complexity along the Columbia River mainstem, providing secondary benefits to terrestrial wildlife and amphibian species in this otherwise arid region. A WDFW property, the accessibility of the Beebe Springs site on SR 97 near Chelan lends itself to interpretive opportunities involving salmon recovery efforts in the upper Columbia.