The Tahuya River and Mission Creek project targets 435 acres of key stream corridors and wetlands containing fish and wildlife hotspots in Mission Creek and the Tahuya River the largest and one of the most important rivers on the Kitsap peninsula. This is the fourth phase in a successful, long term, multi agency, private public effort to protect the best remaining habitat for Hood Canal salmonids and other wildlife on the Kitsap peninsula. The project is sponsored by the Hood Canal Salmon Sanctuary, consisting of WDFW, UW, DNR, Kitsap Co, Point No Point Treaty Council, Pt. Gamble S'Klallam Tribe, Great Peninsula Conservancy, and Hood Canal Environmental Council. [The group may expand to include Mason Co, the Hood Canal Salmon Enhancement Group and the Skokomish Tribe.] Since 1996 HCSS has purchased 702 acres of prime fish and wildlife habitat [another 338 acres is being negotiated] in this and adjacent watersheds in this and adjacent watersheds using WWRP, SRFB and local funds. This area provides spawning and rearing habitat for coho, cutthroat and steelhead, and indirect habitat for threatened Hood Canal summer chum and Puget Sound chinook. This area contains stream reaches that provide unusually high densities of salmon spawning. In addition to these aquatic species, this area may be utilized by several threatened and candidate terrestrial species, including: birds [bald eagles, pileated woodpecker, purple martin], amphibians [western toad and red legged frog], and mammals [Keen's myotis and Yuma myotis].