diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 902b7be644..ec84f1d5af 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -2657,7 +2657,7 @@ dependencies = [
 name = "wiggle-test"
 version = "0.17.0"
 dependencies = [
- "env_logger 0.7.1",
+ "env_logger",
  "proptest",
  "thiserror",
  "tracing",
diff --git a/crates/wiggle/src/lib.rs b/crates/wiggle/src/lib.rs
index 98f31ee171..cbc92f2662 100644
--- a/crates/wiggle/src/lib.rs
+++ b/crates/wiggle/src/lib.rs
@@ -15,9 +15,8 @@ mod borrow;
 mod error;
 mod guest_type;
 mod region;
-pub mod tracing {
-    pub use tracing::*;
-}
+
+pub extern crate tracing;
 
 pub use borrow::BorrowChecker;
 use borrow::BorrowHandle;
diff --git a/crates/wiggle/test-helpers/Cargo.toml b/crates/wiggle/test-helpers/Cargo.toml
index 181e20aa27..0df67f8624 100644
--- a/crates/wiggle/test-helpers/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/wiggle/test-helpers/Cargo.toml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ wiggle = { path = "..", features = ["tracing_log"] }
 thiserror = "1.0"
 tracing = "0.1.14"
 tracing-subscriber = "0.2.4"
-env_logger="0.7"
+env_logger = "0.7"
 
 
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diff --git a/crates/wiggle/test-helpers/examples/tracing.rs b/crates/wiggle/test-helpers/examples/tracing.rs
index ac58e0d518..5b7eeb8183 100644
--- a/crates/wiggle/test-helpers/examples/tracing.rs
+++ b/crates/wiggle/test-helpers/examples/tracing.rs
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ fn main() {
     if std::env::var("RUST_LOG").is_err() {
         // with no RUST_LOG env variable: use the tracing subscriber.
         let subscriber = tracing_subscriber::fmt()
-            // all spans/events with a level higher than TRACE (e.g, debug, info, warn, etc.)
+            // all spans/events with a level equal to or higher than TRACE (e.g, trace, debug, info, warn, etc.)
             // will be written to stdout.
             .with_max_level(tracing::Level::TRACE)
             // builds the subscriber.