West and East Hoquiam Acquisitions

The purpose of this proposal is to protect and restore high quality surge plain and riparian habitats critical to rearing depressed salmon stocks of Hoquiam Fall Chinook and Hoquiam Winter Steelhead, as well as Coho, Chum and Coastal Cutthroat through the acquisition of 3 properties of fee land comprising 40.7 acres on both the West and East Hoquiam Rivers. These parcelsprotect 0.18 miles of fish bearing streams .

These parcels are adjacent to 712 acres protected with salmon recovery funds through the West Hoquiam River Surge Plain Acquisition project, and 670 acres protected with the East Hoquiam River Acquisition Project.

The goal of this project is to protect conditions for salmon by preventing further loss of riparian habitat and degradation of water quality due to urban development, and to restore degraded riparian habitat. The project will preserve salmon habitat in the river and stream by maintaining water quality, biological diversity, restoring healthy riparian and floodplain conditions and to increase protected lands in the Hoquiam Surge-Plain. The priority species to protect by this acquisition include Chinook, chum, coho, and steelhead.