The Nooksack Tribe will develop 90% design for restoration of the South Fork Nooksack River, Homesteader Reach (RM 6.0 to 6.4), near Acme, Whatcom County. The goal of the project is to design restoration to improve habitat conditions to address early chinook limiting factors of lack of key habitat (deep pools with complex woody cover) and low habitat diversity in a manner that is responsive to landowner concerns about protection of working agricultural lands. Restoration is designed to form pools, increase habitat unit diversity, and increase availability of complex woody cover; it will benefit South Fork Nooksack early chinook adults (holding and spawning life stages) and juveniles (post-emergence, oversummer), and support recovery of the South Fork Nooksack early chinook population by increasing habitat capacity and productivity. South Fork Nooksack early Chinook are essential for ESU recovery, but abundances are critically low. This project implements high priority actions in a high priority reach for SF Nooksack early chinook. The reach is expected to be heavily used by Chinook returning to the Skookum hatchery (2 mi upstream) as part of the South Fork Nooksack Chinook population-rebuilding program. Restoration will also benefit ESA-listed steelhead and bull trout; coho, chum, riverine sockeye, and pink salmon; and cutthroat trout.