August 15, 2007
Hairy Woodpeckers, like the one pictured above, prefer recently burned areas, making them good indicators of forest health in habitats recovering from wildfire.
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Understanding forest health is quite an abstract idea, but thanks to the efforts of science, Forest Service personnel at the Kaibab National Forest are able to assess the ecological health of the forest by monitoring select wildlife species - called Management Indicator Species (MIS) - around the forest.
By By Nathan Sermonis
August 15, 2007