For decades, Oklahoma’s red-cockaded woodpecker population was thought to be limited to an area in McCurtain County.
However, after extensive habitat work, a pair of the federally threatened species was discovered 35 miles away in Le Flore County on the Ouachita National Forest - Oklahoma Ranger District.
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