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Black-backed Woodpeckers and Forest Fires in California and the West

10,000 Birds

I had taken the short drive to the park to search for a family of American Dippers sighted near the visitor center by a fellow birder a few days before. Forest Service plan to allow 30,000 acres of logging in the burned area will cause significant harm to wildlife, water and the regrowing forest. Justin Augustine and Chad Hanson, Ph.D.