OTHER NEWS - April 16, 1993

Lumber Firm, Government Agree on Woodpecker: The nation’s biggest forest products company won a government promise not to interfere with its timber harvesting as long as the company protects an endangered woodpecker living in its trees. Georgia-Pacific Corp. and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said the company’s efforts will help save the red-cockaded woodpecker from extinction in Arkansas, Louisiana, South Carolina and Mississippi. In the first-of-its-kind agreement between the government and a private landowner, Georgia-Pacific promised to locate and mark woodpeckers on its land, keep buffer zones around the pine trees where the birds live, provide adequate foraging habitat and prevent road building in their area.