A Stillness in the Pines: The Ecology of the Red Cockaded Woodpecker

"A wonderful book . . . will be enjoyed by anyone with interest in either birds or the impact that humanity is having on its fellow travelers on spaceship earth." —Paul R. Ehrlich, author of The Population Bomb From eastern Texas the remnants of a once-magnificent forest, nurtured by moisture from the Gulf of Mexico, extend a thousand miles to the Atlantic shore and as far north as Chesapeake Bay. This unique woodland gave birth to two woodpeckers, one large—the ivory-billed woodpecker, whi...