Great news today: believed long extinct, the ivory-billed woodpecker lives in Arkansas.
"This is huge. Just huge," said Frank Gill, senior ornithologist at the Audubon Society. "It is kind of like finding Elvis."
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050428/sc_nm/environment_woodpecker_dc_4
A salute to all those who protected the suitable habitat.
Now if we can only find somewhere in the Great Lakes region...a blue pike, a passenger pigeon, and a bison.
Posted by Dave at April 28, 2005 05:16 PM