MisTIMBERstood: Birds in Decline

🌳🐦 Birds such as the Golden Winged Warbler and Wood Thrush are more than just songsters of America's eastern woodlands - they're indicators of our forest health. But alarmingly, studies reveal a 60% decline in the Wood Thrush population since 1970, echoing the fate of other migratory songbirds.
Why?
Our forests have become too uniform, often dominated by middle-aged trees, lacking the mosaic of young and old stands that many species desperately need. While nature's resilience has allowed forests to recover from historical overharvesting, we now face a challenge of a different kind: lack of structural diversity. To safeguard our avian treasures, we must adopt proactive forest management, using tools like timber harvest and commercial thinning.
The birds are sounding the alarm - it's high time we heeded their call and took decisive action. 🌲🎶 #SaveOurSongbirds #ForestDiversityMatters

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I been building brush piles for them.

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Didn’t video this in ky?