This project will allow Columbia CD to facilitate cost share for upland BMP's with producers to address sedimentation impacts on water quality and quantity, TMDL's & salmonid restoration. Conventional farming and tillage practices are major contributors of cropland erosion in Columbia County. Changes to more intensive cropping systems & reducing summerfallow acreage will significantly reduce erosion & sediment impacts on water quality & salmonid restoration. Reducing tillage, crop residue uses & conservation cropping systems can reduce soil erosion dramatically, estimated between 70 - 94% considering practice & rainfall area. The targeted BMP will be direct seeding, but all upland BMP's will be considered for implementation & prioritized for beneficial impact. Upland BMP implementation contributing to salmonid restoration has been endorsed by the WA Cons Com, NRCS & NWPPC's Independent Scientific Review Panel project review process for Washington Model Watersheds (Asotin, Pataha, Tucannon) identifying this as a viable management tool for salmonid restoration. District staff in cooperation with Columbia County WSU Extension Agents will identify & work with 10 producers within the Touchet River Watershed to implement a 2 year, 3 cropping season continuous direct seeding plan, id crop rotations & monitor soil erosion rates & project implementation cost utilizing the Alutin method. This project will involve 4933 acres over the 2 year period.