Friday, July 28, 2006





Every year, the refuge is scouted for trees with possible red-cockaded woodpecker nests. (These woodpeckers, aka RCWs, are on the endangered species list and are the only woodpeckers to excavate cavity nests in living trees.) The trees are ringed with white paint; and before a prescribed burn, the ground fuel is raked away to a 12 foot diameter to protect the nests.

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