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“Our work emphasizes how forests primarily need and consume water, and so managing forest health requires thinking about how much water is available for forests, how forests use that water, and how management strategies can mitigate increasing drought stress,” said station research hydrologist Gordon Grant, who led the analysis.

"The problem is that these two events, high temperature and low flow, are very stressful for fish and other aquatic organisms," said Ivan Arismendi, the study's lead author and a research professor in OSU's Department of Fisheries and Wildlife. "Because these two extreme events are occurring more closely to each other, they have less time to recover or adapt to be ready for the next one."