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How Much Wood Would a Woodpecker Peck If a Woodpecker Existed?
Judge halts irrigation project that could harm ivory-billed's habitat |
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21 Jul 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| How Much Wood Would a Woodpecker Peck If a Woodpecker Existed? Judge halts irrigation project that could harm ivory-billed's habitat A federal judge has temporarily halted a $319 million Army Corps of Engineers irrigation project in Arkansas, pending further study of potential impact to the habitat of the ivory-billed woodpecker -- which may or may not be extinct. The last c ... |
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| Topics: Arkansas, Army Corps of Engineers, National Wildlife Federation, news, wildlife (all these topics) |
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It's Déjà Ew All Over Again, Again
Sighting of ivory-billed woodpecker questioned by new batch of experts |
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17 Mar 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| It's Déjà Ew All Over Again, Again Sighting of ivory-billed woodpecker questioned by new batch of experts Ivory-billed woodpecker, we hardly knew ye. And then ye came back and we acted like we'd known ye all along. But now it turns out there may be no ye to know after all: In today's issue of the journal Science, leading North American birder David Sibley and three ornithologists say that last year's seeming rediscovery of the bir ... |
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| Topics: Arkansas, news, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Agony and Ivory
Activists sue to stop water project near ivory-billed woodpecker habitat |
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09 Sep 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Agony and Ivory Activists sue to stop water project near ivory-billed woodpecker habitat Bird lovers rejoiced when the ivory-billed woodpecker was rediscovered, but now the fun really begins. Eco-advocates are aiming to block two planned federal water projects that threaten the eastern Arkansas bottomland hardwood forest area where the bird resides. Two conservation groups filed suit in federal court yesterday to stop one of them, ... |
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| Topics: Arkansas, news, wildlife (all these topics) |
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There Is a Lord God
Woodpecker thought extinct rediscovered; birders weep like babies |
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29 Apr 2005 |
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| There Is a Lord God Woodpecker thought extinct rediscovered; birders weep like babies It was spotted several times -- once even filmed -- over the past year and a half. Now, ornithologists writing in the journal Science have officially confirmed the existence of at least one ivory-billed woodpecker, a miraculously tangible token of a species long thought extinct. The discovery -- referred to variously a ... |
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| Topics: Arkansas, environmental restoration, news, wildlife (all these topics) |
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