Woodpecker Wars | WILD HOPE

An unlikely alliance is giving the endangered red-cockaded woodpecker a new lease on life. More

At the Ft. Bragg Army base in North Carolina, an improbable alliance is giving the endangered red-cockaded woodpecker a new lease on life. After a clash between U.S. Fish and Wildlife and the U.S. Army revealed that low-grade forest fires sparked by artillery and tracers inadvertently created excellent woodpecker habitats, the two sides joined forces to monitor and protect the birds on the base.

AIR DATE 6/12/23