From 2008 through 2011, we developed a rehabilitation plan for the Little Qualicum River estuary in consultation with experts. Our challenges were many. The dendritic channels of the mid and high marsh areas had widened and become shallow. Channel edge plant communities along the main channel were mostly denuded. On the lower marsh, much of the marsh platform -rich organic substrates accumulating over millennia, had washed away with the tides. A salmonid enhancement project on the spit had been deemed 'sterile', since sedges planted along the artificially created channels and islands there had been readily removed by geese.