The Acme Early Chinook Restoration project is located on the South Fork Nooksack River at the community of Acme. The project used ballasted log jams to restore complex pool habitat along 600 feet along the left bank of the South Fork, removed ~150 feet of left bank riprap from the bank and mid-channel, and improved floodplain tributary habitat connectivity and complexity along 150 feet of the abandoned lower Landingstrip Creek which now functions as a side channel. Priority species and life stages include adult and juvenile natural origin spring Chinook salmon, migrating and foraging bull trout, rearing juvenile steelhead, and other salmonids consistent with WRIA 1 Salmonid Recovery Plan priorities. The complex log structures provide cover, scour pools, and intersect with emergent groundwater to moderate summer and fall pool water temperatures in a reach where elevated temperature is a recognized limiting factor for spring Chinook. The South Fork captured lower Landingstrip Creek during the 2008/2009 winter. The creek now enters the South Fork at a deep pool with complex wood providing ample holding and rearing. Coho and other tributary spawners now have perrenial access to Landingstrip Creek. In the past, the lower section/new side channel would be dry denying passage. The jams at the opening to the side channel encourage perennial flow into the seasonally dry lower reaches of the former channel of Landingstrip Creek while reducing the potential for development of a full scale avulsion. A additional element not in the original scope of work was inter-planting of over 1250 feet of the right bank on County Parks property to enhance the conifer component towards restoration targets while improving floodplain forest condition in anticipation of partial right bank riprap removal at some point in the future. The Acme community supported the habitat goals of the project and benefits from the project as it helps maintain the current alignment of the river through a bend and under the SR 9 bridge by roughening the bank & encouraging flow, but not avulsion, through the side channel. This project complements associated restoration that includes land acquisition, building removal, and replanting of riparian vegetation on downstream flood prone Whatcom County Flood Control Zone District property and upstream in Landingstrip Creek. It contributes to teh series of engineered logjams that is a strategic approach to supplying critical South Fork habitat. This is not to say the project was not without controversy with numerous meetings to address concerns. This produced project delays and the need to redesign the project to adjust to site changes. The first phase of construction occurred in 2009 with a second phase happening in 2010. The restoration design was developed under SRFB grant 06-2256N with redesign under this gran. Design was by Northwest Hydraulic Consultants (nhc) with oversight and contribution by Whatcom County Public Works Natural Resource and River and Flood groups.