Boreal forest researchers refer to both roads and hydro transmission lines as "linear features," but to some forest-dwellers they might simply be called bad news.
"The more of these you build, the more negative effects you'll get in the system," said Stan Boutin, a professor of biological sciences at the University of Alberta.
Boutin said in Alberta, whitetail deer and coyotes are using linear features to expand north into the boreal forest, where they never lived before.
The deer, especially, have a negative effect on moose and woodland caribou, because wolves are attracted to the high number of deer.
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