The Red-Cockaded Woodpecker: Surviving in a Fire-Maintained Ecosystem

by Richard Conner, Jeffrey R. Walters, D. Craig Rudolph

Book Overview

Though small among its woodpecker relatives, the Red-cockaded Woodpecker poses a huge dilemma for its human neighbors. Uniquely adapted to live in the old-growth pine forests of the southeastern United States, the Red-cockaded Woodpecker has nearly disappeared as the forests have been cleared for agricultural, commercial, and residential uses over the last two centuries. Today, it waits at a crossroads. Scientific management practices could restore...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292712340
• ISBN13: 9780292712348
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.3"