Texas Fauna Project

Red-cockaded Woodpecker

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Dan Saenz, a wildlife biologist at the U.S. Forest Service's Southern Research Station, has spent over 30 years studying timber and wildlife in southern U.S. forests. Much of his work has focused on the red-cockaded woodpecker. Here he explains the roots of the bird's decline, and its later recovery, which date back to the Bonanza era of lumbering at the turn of the 20th century.