The project scope is to implement high priority action items to maintain, enhance and restore fish habitat and fish passage in the priority stream segments of the Upper Salmon Basin Watershed Project area within the administrative boundaries of the Lemhi Soil and Water Conservation District.

Implementation of measures funded under this plan will achieve the objective of the Northwest Power Planning Council's Strategy for Salmon Recovery, the National Marine Fisheries Service Salmon Recovery Plan in terms of stabilizing and improving habitat for anadromous fish and the "Four Governors Salmon Recovery Recommendations for Salmon Recovery".

Migratory and habitat connectivity across the watershed's valley bottom areas is of high importance to ecologically-based restoration efforts because the tributary sub-watersheds tend to be dominated by federal lands and often provide habitat strongholds for native species of fish and wildlife.

Key habitat limitations in the watershed's bottomland areas include migration problems/ blockages and streambed sedimentation. Addressing these limitations may offer an opportunity to enhance the watershed's anadromous salmonids and will clearly benefit other native species of salmonids, other fish, and wildlife.  The primary opportunity for addressing these problems in the Lemhi and Mid Salmon- Panther watersheds is through the LSWCD and the USBWP and their collaborative efforts on non-federal land.

The goal of the projects identified is to improve anadromous fish passage in both specific local reaches and the overall aquatic health of the sub-basin. Enhance the watershed to maintain and restore balance with watershed processes that will restore geomorphic diversity, reduce bank erosion, lower summer temperatures and improve fish habitat with assistance from the local watershed group providing local technical support.