MSRF used funding from RCO and others to advance the Sugar Project from conceptual to final design. The Sugar Project area extends from RM 41.25 to 42.5 and builds on prior conceptual designs developed for the Sugar Levee and Sugar Left sub-project areas. Restoration actions developed for each area expand peripheral and transitional habitat, increase instream structural complexity, and improve natural function within the reach to benefit ESA-listed Spring Chinook and Steelhead. Specific actions focus on levee modifications to increase floodplain connection, side channel enhancement and creation to provide rearing and refuge habitat, placed fill removal, ELJ and smaller wood placements to increase in-channel and side-channel complexity, and riparian plantings to increase buffers in previously cleared areas. Project designs have been developed for both the Sugar Levee and Sugar Left sub-project areas to allow construction over 2 distinct phases starting in 2025