‘It has the potential to act as an important component’
A threatened woodpecker species is now thriving in an unexpected location — a military bombing range. Conservation biologists have successfully turned the Avon Park Air Force Range in Florida into a sanctuary for red-cockaded woodpeckers. Between 1998 and 2016, conservationists translocated 54 red-cockaded woodpeckers from six healthy populations to Avon Park. Spanning 106,000 acres, the…