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The Ivory-Billed Woodpecker In Mississippi?, Stephen J. Dinsmore
The Ivory-Billed Woodpecker In Mississippi?, Stephen J. Dinsmore
Stephen J Dinsmore
In April the environmental community received a real surprise--the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, long thought to be extinct, had apparently been rediscovered in Arkansas! As the news unfolded, the world learned that a team of researchers had been tracking at least one woodpecker, a lone male, for more than a year in the Cache River region of east-central Arkansas. The rediscovery of a bird presumed extinct for more than 60 years subsequently galvanized the environmental community and garnered much-needed support for the preservation of the Southeast's remaining old growth bottomland forests and endangered species recovery.