The Walla Walla County Conservation District constructed a series of rock and wood structures along 1,180 feet of the left bank of the Touchet River, approximately 1 miles west of the City of Waitsburg. The purpose of the project was to enhance instream habitat for a genetically distinct population of Middle Columbia River Evolutionary Significant Unit steelhead and stabilize approximately 800 ft. of actively eroding Touchet River bank. In the previous 10 years, erosion of 150 feet of streambank and accelerated lateral channel migration caused the loss of 60 trees and prevented future mature riparian vegetation from establishing to provide shade. The increased stream width-depth ratios exposed a greater channel surface area to solar warming. Poor water quality due to increased sedimentation and turbidity, lack of large woody debris, and high temperatures lethal to salmonids produce redd suffocation, low concentrations of dissolved oxygen, an insufficient food supply, and lack of pools/pool tail-outs for spawning. 2.9 adjacent acres were planted with 3,260 native trees and shrubs. Objectives included: reducing fine sediment input, 25:1 width:depth ratio, <10% embeddedness, no more than 4 days above 72° F, and 80% bank stability. The goal was to accelerate the recovery of watershed and riparian processes in which these fish and other aquatic and riparian-dependent species adapted.