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

10,000 Birds

The report, Nourished by Wildfire: The Ecological Benefits of the Rim Fire and the Threat of Salvage Logging , explains how fires are essential for maintaining biological diversity in the Sierra Nevada ecosystem 4. Justin Augustine and Chad Hanson, Ph.D. It is a short, very informative, nine page report that I urge you to read.