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Type: Conference Paper
Author(s): D. L. Kulhavy
Editor(s): D. L. Kulhavy; R. G. Hooper; Ralph Costa
Publication Date: 1995

The endangered red-cockaded woodpecker (RCW) has a unique life history and ecology that lends inself to interpretive techniques. This paper explores and explains: 1) the reasons why the RCW has interpretive value, 2) 'tools' for successful RCW interpretation and 3) various RCW interpretive success stories.

Citation: Kulhavy, D. L. 1995. Interpretation of an endangered species: the red-cockaded woodpecker story, in DL Kulhavy, RG Hooper, and R Costa eds., Red-cockaded Woodpecker Symposium III: Recovery, Ecology and Management, held 24-28 January 1993, North Charleston, South Carolina. Nacogdoches, TX, Center for Applied Studies in Forestry, College of Forestry, Stephen F. Austin State University, p. 131-136.

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Keywords:
  • burning permits
  • cavity trees
  • community ecology
  • conservation
  • education
  • environmental impact analysis
  • fire dependent species
  • forage
  • habits and behavior
  • histories
  • landscape ecology
  • national forests
  • nesting
  • North Carolina
  • Picoides borealis
  • pine forests
  • Pinus palustris
  • population ecology
  • Pseudotsuga menziesii
  • public information
  • reproduction
  • South Carolina
  • state parks
  • storms
  • Texas
  • threatened and endangered species (animals)
  • Thuja plicata
  • Tilia americana
  • US Forest Service
  • vulnerable species or communities
  • wildfires
  • wildlife habitat management
  • wildlife refuges
Tall Timbers Record Number: 14731Location Status: Not in fileAbstract Status: Okay, Fair use, Reproduced by permission
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