Highlighted Projects Revitalizing Ecosystems of Land and Water

In collaboration with Grays Harbor Conservation District (GHCD), Natural Systems Design (NSD) performed an assessment of the potential to restore alluvial water storage and aquatic

NSD led the analysis and design efforts for this project which addressed fish passage issues on Mill Creek. NSD worked with project stakeholders including WDFW

Clarks Creek and Upper Clarks Tributary experienced substantial down-cutting and in-channel erosion. This project stabilized a 12’ headcut as well and roughened the channel and

Natural Systems Design was contracted by Seattle City Light to restore instream habitat within Sullivan Creek, the largest tributary to the Pend Oreille River above

A tributary to the Carbon River, South Prairie Creek is a principal salmon bearing stream in the Puyallup/White River watershed.

NSD is managing the overall design effort the Gray Reach and Stormy Reach projects, a 4-mile project area of the Entiat River under an IDIQ contract with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.

NSD lead a team of forest and wetland ecologists, fluvial geomorphologists, river engineers and hydrologists in developing a riparian forest restoration plan for the 47-mile long Wapato Reach of the Yakama River.