Texas Fauna Project

Red-cockaded Woodpecker

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Brandt Mannchen, chair of the Houston Sierra Club's Forestry Subcommittee, has successfully helped press the U.S. Forest Service to manage the national forests of Texas to restore the endangered red-cockaded woodpecker. While the Service's approach has brought the woodpecker back from the brink, it has done so through commercial logging and promotion of a younger, less diverse forest.