Leach Botanical Gardens is a City of Portland Parks and Recreation property managed by Leach Garden Friends. We have been working with a diverse group of partners including 2 local schools to remove invasive plants from 5 acres along Johnson Creek. This project will address instream and floodplain habitat restoration by placing log habitat structures and enhancing floodplain connectivity by enlarging a .15 ac wetland area to a .3 acre wetland with seasonal connectivity to the creek. This stretch of Johnson Creek has a full riparian canopy along both sides of the creek, but lacks instream habitat diversity and floodplain connectivity.