Restoration Project of the Year

Organization: Quileute Tribe

Project Name: Quillayute River Thunder Field – Reach 3 Floodplain Restoration and Enhancement Project

The 2023 Restoration Project of the Year Award recognizes the Quillayute River Floodplain Restoration Project – Reach 3 as a model of tribally led river restoration that protects community, culture, and salmon along the lower Quillayute River near La Push, Washington.

Special Project of the Year

Theme: Inclusion in Restoration

Organization: Klamath River Renewal Corporation

Project Name: Klamath River Renewal Project

The 2023 Chapter Award recognition for the Klamath River Renewal Project honors both an unprecedented act of river restoration and the decades of coalition-building that made it possible, with particular emphasis on the recent milestone of removing the first of four major hydroelectric dams on the Klamath River.