Stream restoration projects designed to help salmon have unexpected benefits for land animals.

BY PHILIP KIEFER | PUBLISHED JUN 25, 2022 3:01 PM

https://www.popsci.com/environment/log-jams-wildlife-corridor-video/

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A bobcat gets ready to walk across a log jam in Oregon.Courtesy Ezmie Trevarrow and Ivan Arismendi

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For animals living in the woods of western Oregon, a log across a stream can act like Main Street. Videos captured by a pair of ecologists at Oregon State University (OSU), published earlier this monthin the journalBiodiversity and Conservation, show dozens of species using logs from a stream-restoration project to eat, preen, and walk.Top ArticlesbyPopular ScienceREAD MOREInside the ambitious plan to restore peat wetlandsin California

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“We think this is a hidden role of large wood,” says Ivan Arismendi, a stream ecologist at OSU and a coauthor on the study…