Here in North Carolina, those dollars came from the Department of Defense (DOD), which was ordered to restore the population of red-cockaded woodpeckers at Fort Liberty.

Few people pay much attention to woodpeckers. Either they are just things that live out there, or they are homewreckers.

The threatened red-cockaded woodpecker. Courtesy of HHMI Tangled Bank Studios. No species exists in a vacuum. It is part of a community, dependent on its neighbors for survival. That’s why ...