The SRFB Grant Application is for funding to acquire approximately 73.75 acres of Naches River floodplain and river channel. The specific properties in this application have been documented as "priority acquisition properties" in local watershed and salmon recovery plans. This reach is currently in a severely degraded state due to confinement, changes in sediment regime and irrigation diversions. The instability of the channel is not only bad for salmon, it presents serious management problems for the infrastructure located in this reach. This acquisition project will allow the subsequent implementation of a reach-level public infrastructure and restoration program (i.e. pull back of dikes, retirement of existing diversions, improvement fish passage, elimination of false attraction flows, and improvement of habitat and floodplain function) that the City of Yakima, Yakima County, and WSDOT will undertake in the project limits and on adjacent properties. These projects will either be direct habitat improvement projects, or have direct habitat benefits as most of the proposed projects are removal or reconfiguration of existing infrastructure (levees, diversion structures, roads, etc) to allow improved channel and floodplain function. These acquisitions will also link these lands to the Yakima Greenway, which also manages for these purposes.