[TN-Bird] Re: red-cockaded woodpecker in tennessee

The red-cockaded woodpecker population in the Smokies was gone by 1985.  I 
spent some time in the late 1980s working in the Skunk Ridge area where it was 
last found; the pine habitat had continued to deteriorate and a couple of the 
previously used cavity trees had fallen.

More recently, 3 or 4 years ago, Alcoa, through its Tapoco subsidiary (since 
renamed), hired biologists to survey for RCWs in the same part of the park 
where RCWs occurred in the 1970s and 1980s, as well as on nearby Tapoco lands.  
This survey was conducted as part of Tapoco's hydro plant relicensing effort to 
determine whether Tapoco's new license needed to include specific requirements 
for managing RCWs.  The survey crew did not find any recent evidence of RCWs or 
good quality habitat for RCWs.

I believe Smokies staffers have also done some survey work in the area, but 
beyond negative reports on the birds, I don't know the details of these efforts.

Chuck Nicholson
Norris, TN

> 
> From: "Rick Phillips" <sunfish0501@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 2005/12/26 Mon AM 09:56:23 EST
> To: <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [TN-Bird] red-cockaded woodpecker in tennessee
> 
> Hi Folks,
> During the late 1970's I was part of a group of people who crawled around 
> through some very rugged terrain in the Great Smokey Mountains and other 
> places looking for Red-cockaded Woodpeckers.  We found a few birds and some 
> nest cavities in the smokies.  I have not kept up with the status of this 
> bird very well, although I vaguely rmember reading snippets that seemed to 
> imply that it was no longer being observed in Tennessee (notice I did not say 
> it was gone).  Can anyone clue me in to the current status of this bird in 
> the state and particularly what efforts have been made to survey for the 
> birds in the smokies?
> 
> Rick
> 
> Rick Phillips
> Kingsport, Tennessee
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