Kittitas Conservation Trust used this grant to produce preliminary design documents for instream habitat restoration in lower Gold Creek, a headwaters tributary to the upper Yakima River. Gold Creek originates in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness, then flows into Lake Keechelus near Snoqualmie Pass in northern Kittitas County (WRIA 39). It supports a threatened population of bull trout. The preliminary designs were supported by the scientific findings expressed in the Gold Creek Habitat Assessment and Conceptual Design Project (RCO #12-1306) that documented the underlying causes for degraded bull trout habitat in the project reach, River Mile 1.0 - 2.1. The Gold Creek watershed has experienced major human disturbances including logging, mining, water storage impoundments, and residential, road, and railway development. These historic disturbances have altered natural processes and hydrologic conditions, resulting in degraded habitat and seasonal dewatering. The cumulative impacts have resulted in an over-widened channel that lacks instream complexity. Designs focus on instream restoration actions that will narrow and stabilize stream banks, restore adjacent floodplains, increase stream flow complexity and wood loading, encourage regeneration of riparian forests, increase quantity of pools with cover, and decrease the duration and extent of seasonal dewatering. Hydrological data gathered during the preliminary design phase will also inform restoration strategies for Gold Creek Pond. In 2016, KCT requested a cost increase of $12,186, to address the need for more stakeholder meetings and landowner outreach as the project is adjacent to many private landowners who have a interest in the project development. The funding went to additional meetings in Seattle, individual landowner meetings for creek-side property, and frequent stakeholder updates on project progress.