This project continued a 5-year direct seed program on 1,180.8 acres in the George Creek watershed, a tributary to Asotin Creek. Landowners who had continued to direct seed without compensation during the two years following the original 5-year direct seed program were eligible. The benefits to water quality and habitat have been outstanding because of sediment reduction. However, under current economic conditions, landowners must do what they can to make a living and reverting to conventional tilling has occurred with some other landowners from the original program. Direct seeding's economic benefits to landowners may not be realized for up to 10 years after the project is initiated and we have lost some who were not satisfied with the lower yields in the first few years of the original program. If the trend continued with these landowners, it would have increased the amount of sediment delivered to George Creek. Providing a cost-share for landowner seeding and herbicide expenses during seeded and fallow years helped to maintain water quality benefits that might otherwise have been lost. Asotin Creek, a 325 sq. mile tributary to the Snake River in WRIA #35 is home to ESA listed stocks of bull trout, salmon and wild summer steelhead. The watershed is managed as a wild steelhead reserve by WDFW. Turbidity and sedimentation have been primary limiting factors identified by planning processes. The Snake River Salmon Recovery Plan identified sediment deposition in spawning gravels as a factor limiting salmonid production and improving uplands is a priority action under substrate embeddedness for George Creek.