This project constructed 6 bank log jams and 1 bar-apex log jam and stabilized one existing debris pile within a 0.15-mile-long reach of the lower South Fork Nooksack River around River Mile 3.8, just upstream from the mouth of Todd Creek. The goal of the project was to address factors limiting South Fork Nooksack early chinook and other salmonids in the lower South Fork Nooksack River, specifically lack of deep pools with complex cover, low habitat diversity, and high water temperatures. According to the Puget Sound TRT, at the time the project was proposed, the South Fork population had the highest risk of near-term extinction among the 22 populations that comprise the Puget Sound Chinook ESU, and its recovery is considered critical to recovery of the ESU as a whole. The highest near-term priority for WRIA 1 salmon recovery is to conserve the South Fork early chinook population by initiating a native stock-rebuilding program, and implementing projects that deliver the greatest and most immediate improvement in capacity and productivity downstream from the rebuilding program site (RM14.3). The project is expected to increase the frequency and depth of holding pools, availability of instream cover, and availability of temperature refugia by encouraging formation of complex pools in a zone of groundwater influence to the river. Life stages affected include upstream migration, holding, spawning, and rearing. The project occurs on land owned by the Nooksack Indian Tribe where wetland, tributary instream, floodplain and riparian restoration projects have recently been implemented.