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Ivory-billed Woodpecker found in Arkansas; implications for Texas
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The discovery of the single male Ivory-billed Woodpecker in Arkansas at the "Big Woods" has had a phenomenal affect of the local community. You may have seen the story in your local newspaper about a hairdresser in the Arkansas community giving kids Ivory-billed styled haircuts complete with a fire engine red topknot. Local stores and inns have rolled out the red carpet for birders. The Nature Conservancy and various federal wildlife agencies have managed to preserve an additional 18,000 acres of bottomland forest and an endangered species recovery team is being formed. With the long hot summer, the hunt and hype has been tempered. All of us that have been involved with this species at one point or another in our lifetime have looked back on former observations and conclusions. My first thought when I began this process was: Why has this species been so controversial? Why have so many experts been so sure the species was extinct? Why was it that so many people's integrity was so completely assaulted?
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