Endangered Woodpeckers Find a New Home on a Military Training Ground. The red-cockaded woodpecker has lost nearly all of its habitat in the southeastern United States, but an Air Force range in Florida is part of an emerging initiative to relocate besieged species on protected land.

3 comments

1. What an amazing opportunity for some wildlife biologists. We need more feel-good stories about endangered species.

2. The lane demands of military bases have had the accidental benefit of providing habitat. In recent years, it has turned into good PR and even some ecological FTPs. It’s imperfect habitat (often near firing ranges and in unexploded ordinance areas), but imperfect is better than nothing. I hope they have good IPM in place to handle the invasive species encroaching on this area as well. 

3. I worked on a population modeling project connected to this species! It was very cool!