Leach Botanical Gardens Stream Restoration
Project Overview
Basics
Leach Botanical Gardens Stream Restoration
Planning/Design
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.
2022
2023
2023
5/1/2024
Location
Organizations
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Contacts
Jennifer Hamilton - Johnson Creek Watershed Council (JCWC) (jennifer@jcwc.org)
Performance Measures
Expected Performance Measures
| Large Wood Placement | Placement Density: 5 - 15 yrd^3/1000 ft Placement Location: In Channel | 600 lf |
| Off-Channel Wetland Area Increase | Inundation frequency : Equal or more frequent than annual event | 6,500 sq ft |
Reported Performance Measures
Reported Performance Measures are not relevant for Projects in the Planning/Design stage.
Financials
Budget
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Reported Expenditures
No Expenditures have been reported for this Project.
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Focal Species
Focal Species
Rearing and resting habitat, off channel rearing habitat
Rearing and resting habitat
rearing and resting habitat
Rearing and resting habitat
Project Types
Project Types
FIP Bienniums
FIP Bienniums
Project Details
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Notes
| 09/29/2020 10:10 AM | Chuck Lobdell | The partnership at Leach Botanical Gardens involves the Leach Garden Friends, JCWC, Wisdom of the Elders, the Blueprint Foundation, African Youth and Community Organization (AYCO), David Douglas High School, and Lent K-8. The idea is to use the restoration work on a 5-acre undeveloped parcel, acquired by Leach Botanical Garden in 1999, as a "living laboratory" where students and members of the partner organizations can learn, teach about, and participate in various aspects of monitoring/science (macroinvertebrates, amphibians, plant transects, photopoints, etc.) and hands-on restoration (invasive species removal, native plant selection and installation, amphibian habitat enhancement, etc.). Since embarking on this project in 2018, the partners have cleared and planted the first acre of the parcel, are currently clearing the second acre (to be planted this winter), and engaged in pre-project monitoring and a wide variety of other learning opportunities related to the work on the site. |
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