Woodpecker Wars: A Conservation Triumph | Wild Hope

One of the most inspiring conservation stories in American history is playing out on a live-fire training ground at Fort Liberty Army base in North Carolina. There, an improbable alliance is giving a special bird—the endangered red-cockaded woodpecker (RCW)—a new lease on life. After a clash between U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the U.S. Army revealed that low-grade forest fires sparked by artillery and tracers inadvertently created excellent woodpecker habitat, the two sides joined forces to monitor and protect the birds on the base.

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