Natural Systems Design (NSD) is a team of scientists, engineers, and planners who are also farmers, fishermen and impassioned river people who have organized our lives to have a positive influence upon our world. Through landscape scale restoration of ecosystems and physical processes, we strive to promote quality of life for local communities and restore balance to natural systems.
Upper Quinault River Restoration
Fifteen years of log jam installations are restoring critical habitat for the blueback salmon on the Quinault River. (Photo by Larry Workman, Quinault Indian Nation).
Thornton Confluence Restoration
Six acres of urban floodplain re-creation on Thornton Creek has restored chinook salmon habitat and relieved residential flooding.
Cle Elum River Restoration
Helicopter-placed log jams are bringing 4 miles of floodplain tributaries back to life downstream of a major dam.
