Lummi Nation will use this grant to design an instream restoration project on the South Fork Nooksack River southeast of Saxon, Washington in Whatcom County (RM 12.9 to 13.9). The goal is to restore SF Nooksack early Chinook spawning, rearing and holding habitat to recover self-sustaining runs to harvestable levels by addressing limiting factors of high temperature, low habitat diversity, and lack of key habitat. The LNR will hire an engineering firm to design a project that will use engineered logjams (ELJs) that restore habitat-forming processes to increase the number of primary pools within 5 years, cover over 2,000 feet of riprap with wood, and improve floodplain-channel connectivity by connecting off-channel habitat. Hydraulic modeling, channel & biologic response to proposed treatments will lead to a preliminary design. The LNR will present alternatives to co-managers to select the preferred alternative and preliminary design. The 2005 WRIA 1 Recovery Plan identified South Fork early Chinook as one of the highest priority populations; it is essential for recovery of the Puget Sound ESU, listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. The project enhances benefits of the SF Chinook Rescue Program, a native broodstock hatchery program supporting recovery, and addresses a temperature TMDL on a river threatened by climate change. The project will also benefit ESA-listed steelhead and bull trout; coho, sockeye, and pink salmon; and the Southern Resident Killer Whale.