"woodjam" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1977, Harmon Henkin, The Complete Fisherman's Catalog, page 65:",
          "text": "Straining against the last light, I finally got it tied on and tossed it out to the top of the woodjam.",
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          "ref": "1993, Robert Doppelt, Mary Scurlock, Entering the Watershed, page 67:",
          "text": "[…] to treat potential chronic and catastrophic sedimentation problems caused by forest roads, restore riparian areas and re-establish large woodjams at ecologically appropriate sites.",
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          "ref": "2012, Tim Beechie, Philip Roni, Stream and Watershed Restoration:",
          "text": "Fishes (especially small ones) often use complex hiding cover such as roots,wood jams, or aquatic macrophytes to avoid predators.",
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          "ref": "2020, Ellen Wohl, Rivers in the Landscape, page 286:",
          "text": "In the anastomosing river model, stable alluvial deposits associated with woodjams can resist lateral channel erosion for hundreds of years, providing sites for tree germination.",
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        "(ecology) An accumulation of wood and debris from vegetation that slows the flow of a river or stream."
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