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Article: Woodpeckers find a home at Fort Bragg.
- Article from:
- Endangered Species Update
- Article date:
- July 1, 2006
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Fort Bragg and Camp Mackall occupy over 160,000 acres (65,000 hectares) of North Carolina. Both are located within an area known as the Sandhills Region, and they cover parts of six counties. These reservations, along with adjacent areas, comprise the state's largest remaining contiguous block of longleaf pine--wiregrass forest, an ecosystem that once dominated the southeastern coastal plain. Supporting military training is the Army's priority, but it is also committed to conservation. By focusing resource management at the ecosystem level over the last 15 years, Fort Bragg has made tremendous steps in habitat restoration and wildlife conservation while maintaining the ...
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