A Black- backed Woodpecker was seen from about 20 or 30 feet on a burnt Port Orford Cedar snag adjacent to Horse Timber Sale unit 33; part of the Biscuit Logging Plan.  All trees had been felled within this unit. Woodpeckers can't forage on stumps. Black- backed Woodpeckers have become a rare scene in the Siskiyou Mountians.  Some predict that these fire dependent birds will become more abundant now that fire has returned to the landscape.

Photo by Lisa Shelton