Abstract:
Barbara Lee parks outside the Uwharrie National Forest in Montgomery County after dinner each night, preparing to spend the night in her car. She is looking for nesting holes of the endangered Red-cockaded Woodpeckers. Last year, Lee covered 8,000 of the 40,000 acres of the forest, but rarely sees any of the birds. In a time when clear-cutting of forests is prevalent, it is illegal to cut down nesting trees of these endangered birds. Lee urges property-owners with short-leaf pines to keep an eye out for the birds and to not cut down their trees.