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Logging in watersheds among causes of decline in Pacific salmon, expert says

Decades of clear-cut logging across B.C. have disrupted the landscape's natural mechanisms for mitigating floods and landslides, according to a professor at UBC. Before logging, the forest canopy helps to collect rainfall and shade snowpack, slow down the springtime melt, and aid runoff absorption.


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