The objective of the White River Large Wood Atonement project is to accelerate floodplain recovery and enhance instream function in the lower White River (RM 2- 5.75). This project will improve habitat for all salmonids that utilize the lower White River, including: spring Chinook, steelhead, sockeye, and bull trout throughout the 3+ mi. treatment reach. This will be accomplished by installing vertical pieces of large wood in specific locations where it is expected to collect and increase the retention time of wood that currently floats quickly through the system. Much of the existing wood in the lower White River is not large enough to be persistent on its own due to extensive 20th century logging in the riparian zone and log drives which probably removed most of the large instream log jams. Much of this area was clearcut as recently as the mid-1980s! The entire reach is currently owned by WDFW and the Chelan- Douglas Land Trust so it is managed for conservation purposes. However, the current trajectory for channel recovery is still on the order of decades. Retaining more of this small diameter wood would be expected to increase local bed elevations and thus improve floodplain connectivity. It will likely increase lateral channel dynamics and certainly provide more extensive, complex instream habitat. Because of the sensitive and unroaded character of this reach, we intend to use techniques that have minimal construction impact and will, like the original lo