
Woodpeckers thrive where missiles fly. How a bombing range became a wildlife refuge
Florida’s Avon Park bombing range is teeming with life. Over 40 at-risk species occupy this 106,000-acre expanse used by the U.S. Air Force for training exercises. Conservation biologists from Michigan State University are using the range to test something other than weapons: innovative strategies to save threatened species. Using decades’ worth of monitoring data, researchers…