Goetze: Our region’s woodpeckers may be praised for some things while also maligned for perceived or actual damage caused.

Join a hands-on conservation program at Pebble Hill Plantation on Saturday, May 10, with noted wildlife biologist Joe Burnam.

An intensely burned forest of dense, fire-killed trees is perhaps the most maligned, misunderstood and imperiled habitat. Far from being destroyed, a naturally burned forest harbors extraordinarily ...

Cavity trees, dead standing trees, and downed dead trees create habitat for many species of mammals, birds, insects, amphibians, and reptiles, which positively impacts the rest of the ecosystem.

The ivory-billed woodpecker recently went from near total obscurity to superstardom when birders reported a sighting of the believed-to-be-extinct species. The world's third largest woodpecker was ...

Pileated woodpeckers are the largest of the common woodpeckers found in most of North America. These crow-sized birds present a memorable sight with their zebra-striped heads and necks ...

Since then, collaborative conservation programs have worked to stabilize and rebuild red-cockaded woodpecker populations ...

USFWS’s ivory woodpecker recovery plan, a type of document required for each endangered species, states that conservation efforts will focus on searching for the bird and will only protect habitat ...