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BETH JOHNSTON
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Talking Crossings with author Ben Goldfarb I N T E R V I E W:
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In Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet, writer Ben Goldfarb surveys the field of road ecology, which began as a discipline that largely involved counting roadkill but has evolved beyond car-on-wildlife collisions to consider broader impacts of roads on nature: how culverts harm fish, how road noise changes ecosystems, how road salt turns freshwater rivers brackish. Goldfarb, who during his reporting spent time with Trout Unlimited seeing how the Salmon SuperHwy project is reconnecting hundreds of miles of rivers in Oregon, sat down with us to talk about the intersection of roads and wild fish.
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