There are an estimated 2.4 million dams that are too small to be listed on the National Inventory of Dams and many others that are unmapped and unidentified (Brewitt & Colwyn, 2020;Buchanan et al., 2022). Human-made dams fragment stream ecosystems (Fencl et al., 2015); are detrimental to riverine wildlife (Bellmore et al., 2019;Henley et al., 2000); and can contribute heavily to suspended sediment and nutrient loads in streams when breached (
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