The Marin Municipal Water District just nabbed more funding to create winter habitat and floodplain along Lagunitas Creek, prompting the National Park Service last week to restart and broaden the scoping period for the project, most of which is on federal land. The water district hopes to install 30 to 35-foot logs in the creek, forcing water to back up into the floodplain and side channels in the wet season. The district believes the project could boost populations of endangered coho salmon and threatened steelhead trout: in the extra floodplain, the fish could forage, rest from high flows and hide from predators. Although the eight work sites are on federal and state park land—seven on Lagunitas Creek and one on Olema Creek—the water district is required by agencies such as the State Water Resources Control Board to steward the creek, and two years ago it undertook a study of the creek’s winter habitat, leading to the current project. (The project is also meant to help limit sediment entering the waterway, in line with a state sediment load plan for the creek.) After the water district obtained funding for half the work, the park service collected public comments for the first five work sites, but since it did not complete an environmental review of those sites, it will start over now that funding is available for the entire project. The project also includes two additional sites in Samuel P. Taylor State Park . Comments submitted in the first round do not need to be resubmitted, and will be incorporated into the environment assessment. To comment on the proposal, visit parkplanning.nps.gov/lagunitas and click the “Open for Comment” link, or mail comments to Lagunitas EA c/o Superintendent, Point Reyes National Seashore, 76 Bear Valley Road, Point Reyes Station, CA 94956. Comments are due Aug. 3.