The Klickitat River Haul Road is (was) a two-lane, paved road traversing the floodplain of an otherwise pristine 12-mile reach of the Klickitat River between the confluences of Dead Canyon Creek and the Little Klickitat River. In 1996, flood waters washed away a half mile of the road about half way up the canyon, effectively ending its utility as a haul road. In 2007, with funding from the Salmon Recovery Funding Board, Columbia Land Trust purchased the road and began work to restore river processes to enhance fish habitat. Together with partner, Yakama Nation Fisheries Program, Columbia Land Trust began work to remove or modify portions of this road to restore floodplain function and habitat forming processes. Phase 3 project work built on conservation and restoration work accomplished with two previous SRFB grants, one of which acquired ownership of the road and the second of which initiated restoration work on the paved road. The project addresses limiting habitat features and processes identified in the 2010 Klickitat Lead Entity Salmon Recovery Strategy including reconnecting off-channel habitat and establishing native riparian vegetation for cover and large woody debris recruitment. This portion of the river has the greatest habitat complexity of any reach in the lower Klickitat River and provides a high proportion of the basinwide spawning habitat for steelhead, fall Chinook, and coho, accounting for roughly 30%, 51%, and 38% of the annually observed spawning respectively. Phase 3 removed or modified the existing road bed along 1.7 miles of the road, reactivated 11.5 acres of historic floodplain, removed invasive species, established native riparian vegetation, and restored fish access to over a half mile of a seasonal, fish-bearing tributary. Perhaps most importantly, this project restored to the reach habitat-forming processes associated with bedrock contact, floodplain access, and native channel boundaries. In addition to the ecological goals, Columbia Land Trust sought to understand and respond to the concerns of local or regional stakeholders in the implementation of this project.