Can I still grow pine trees for silviculture purposes and help red-cockaded woodpeckers?
Yes. FWS has been working with private landowners in the Southeast to provide guidance and management recommendations that allow silviculture activities and conservation of red-cockaded woodpeckers. Management work includes conducting certain forestry activities outside the bird’s breeding season, protecting the bird’s nesting tree cluster and using other forestry activities that benefit forestry production and the woodpecker, such as prescribed burning.
