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Grant to Enhance Foraging Opportunities
May, 2006 - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently announced a $71,269 Private Stewardship Grant to The Nature Conservancy “to treat 350 acres of private lands to enhance foraging opportunities for the ivory-billed woodpecker.”
Conservancy scientists, along with scientists from the Arkansas Natural Heritage Commission, began tree “morticulture” experiments last fall on private lands near the Cache River National Wildlife Refuge. The goal of the study is to determine the best method for attracting targeted species of beetles, which lay their eggs in recently dead or dying trees.
The study includes monitoring for beetles, their larvae, and the ivory-billed woodpecker, which feeds on beetle larvae.
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