[BCNnet] Vote Today to Conserve Cavity Nesters

[Donnie Dann]

BCN friends,

The following is self-explanatory. Please join me in voting and helping to conserve the Lewis’s Woodpecker.

Thanks,

Donnie Dann
Highland Park/Lake County
donniebird at yahoo.com





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From: Steve Holmer <sholmer at abcbirds.org>
Date: October 5, 2011 1:50:11 PM CDT
To: "abcorgs at npogroups.org" <abcorgs at npogroups.org>
Subject: Vote Today to Conserve Cavity Nesters
Reply-To: Steve Holmer <sholmer at abcbirds.org>


 
American Bird Conservancy has developed a program to support the conservation of cavity-nesting birds in the
Pacific Northwest, in particular the Lewis’s Woodpecker. We are working with many partners and funding sources
to implement the work, but this year you can help! We are currently in a competition with several other projects for
funding from the Zoo Boise Conservation Fund that requires on-line voting during the month of October to identify a
winner. We would greatly appreciate your efforts to help us “get out the vote” for this important project.
 
Voting should only take about 1-2 minutes and you can access the process at the Zoo Boise
Conservation Fund web page (http://www.zooboise.org/zbcfprojects.aspx).
 
Please share this broadly and thanks in advance for your help.
 
Voting closes October 28.
 
Background
 
The Lewis’s Woodpecker was named after Meriwether Lewis of the famous Lewis and Clark Expedition. Lewis’s
Woodpeckers are unusual not only for their striking pink, red, and iridescent green plumage, but also for their
ponderosa pine habit of catching insects on the wing (flycatching) unlike other woodpeckers. Unfortunately the
Lewis’s Woodpecker is experiencing population declines across its range in western North America. Bird
conservation groups have listed it as the highest priority woodpecker species after the endangered Red-cockaded
Woodpecker.
 
The open ponderosa pine forests that these woodpeckers love also are in trouble. Poor forest policies and
management, including fire suppression, has resulted in unnaturally high tree densities in forests that were formerly
kept open by frequent low-intensity fires. These dense forests provide less useable habitat for the woodpeckers and
are highly susceptible to large-scale fires and beetle outbreaks.
 
American Bird Conservancy and its partners are working with private landowners through the Pacific Northwest to
create and restore the kind of habitat that cavity-nesting birds such as Lewis’s Woodpeckers need to survive. We
are assisting willing private landowners to return their forest to a healthier, more open condition, protecting them
from large wildfires and beetle infestation. This restoration includes the need for large dead tree (snag)
management and creation – which is essential for Lewis’s Woodpeckers.
 
Primary partners
 
American Bird Conservancy, Pacific Stewardship, American Forest Foundation, Forest Restoration Partnership, Wildlife
Conservation Society, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, Natural Resources Conservation Service,
Washington Department of natural Resources, U. S. Forest Service, Idaho Department of Fish and Game, Oregon
Department of Forestry, Deschutes Land Trust, Biophilia Foundation, Grayback Forestry, Oregon Small Woodland
Owners Association, McDaniel Logging, several private donors and numerous private landowners.
 
Learn more about ABCs program for the Conservation of Ponderosa Pine Forests for Cavity-Nesting Birds
www.abcbirds.org/abcprograms/domestic/CavityNesting.html
 
Please support this project by voting today at http://www.zooboise.org/zbcfprojects.aspx and forwarding this
message on.
 
Bob Altman, American Bird Conservancy
baltman at abcbirds.org
Dan Casey, American Bird Conservancy
dcasey at abcbirds.org
 
Steve Holmer
Senior Policy Advisor
American Bird Conservancy &
Director, Bird Conservation Alliance
202-234-7181 ext. 216
sholmer at abcbirds.org
Skype: sholmerabc
 
www.abcbirds.org, www.birdconservationalliance.org, ABC on Facebook, ABC Videos
 

 
 
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