The primary goal of this project is to enhance and increase the natural channel function and geomorphic processes that improve habitat suitability for spawning and rearing summer steelhead, spring Chinook salmon, and other native fish and wildlife resources. Project priorities include restoring juvenile rearing habitat for steelhead during both summer and winter months, as well as spawning habitat for adult steelhead.

Objectives:

1. Increased quantity of large wood pieces (greater than 6-inch diameter and 10 feet long) to greater than 15 per 100 feet of stream length by 2020 and following a discharge greater than a 2-year recurrence interval.

2. Increase the quantity of individual habitat unit types (riffle, pool, glide) to at least 7.5 per 20 times the average bankfull width by 2022 and following the occurrence of at least 3 discharge events greater than a 2-year recurrence.

3. Increase the area of zero velocity habitat and side channel habitat to 20% of the total inundated area at the 2-year recurrence discharge.

4. Increase the area of spawning substrate grain size ranging from fine gravel (>4mm) to small cobble (<64mm) in pool tailout areas by 2022.

5. Increase stem density of native riparian shrub and tree species to a minimum of 195 stems per acre by 2022.

6. Increase native riparian plant species diversity (herbaceous, shrub, tree) by more than a factor of 6.

7. Increase the inundated floodplain area to twice (2x) the pre-project condition during peak discharge events greater than the modeled 2-year recurrence.

8. Achieve an average bankfull width/depth ratio less than 30 by 2022 and following the occurrence of a discharge greater than a 2-year recurrence.

9. Increase channel sinuosity to greater than 1.6 by 2022.

10. Decrease channel entrenchment, measured as a ratio between floodprone width of the 25-year recurrence inundation level and the bankfull width, to an increased value greater than 2.2 by 2022.

11.Increase the quantity of pools greater than 3 feet in depth at bankfull flow to greater than 35% of total stream area and at a frequency of length between pools less than 8 times bankfull channel width.