The Hood River Watershed Group is doing two restoration projects this summer, which will be underway through the end of August.  One project is the third phase of Neal Creek habitat restoration, this time on Hood River County forestland.  The project will enhance two miles of Neal Creek by returning a section of the creek to its historic channel length and adding approximately 680 pieces of large wood to the channel, mostly with a helicopter, resulting in the reconnection of over 20 acres of floodplain.  Project partners include the Watershed Group, Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs, and Hood River County.  A second project will enhance approximately 3/4 of a mile of instream habitat on Baldwin Creek, improve passage to approximately two miles of stream, and reconnect up to 11 acres of floodplain.  A new stream simulation culvert will help create a roughened channel to eliminate a passage barrier at a diversion dam.