[TN-Bird] RCW in Tennessee

Thanks Bob and Chuck for the quick, detailed, and very enlightening replies to 
my question.  Strangely enough, as I recall, Polk County is one of the areas 
where I looked (along with Tom Laughlin and Fred Alsop) in the late 70's and 
don't recall finding any.  I do remember relatively large, very remote areas of 
what I would call pretty marginal habitat in the Jellico area on the Cumberland 
Plateau.  I sometimes look up along the ridgetops in parts of southwest 
Virginia and northeast Tennessee where isolated stands of scattered large pines 
are still found and wonder if are or ever were red-cockaded's there.  I guess 
reading about all this business of searches for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker 
reminded me of how difficult it is to find something even when you're pretty 
sure it's there. 
Rick

Rick Phillips
Kingsport, Tennessee
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