I had a wonderful opportunity to study and photograph a pair of red-headed woodpeckers nesting in an old tree and feeding their young. All of this happened because a reader of this column ...

Prairie smoke, pasque flowers and kitten-tails have already begun popping up, and there’s hope for more surprises. Less than a year after crews began restoring an 85-acre oak savanna ...

"Oak savanna supports species of concern such as Red-Headed Woodpeckers and Bobwhite Quail, who depending on the part of their life cycle, need grassland as well as tree cover to thrive," SIAS writes.

The high spatial heterogeneity induced by the mixed distribution of savanna trees and grasses has consistently ... of temperate savanna: elm, maple/oak, and shrub savanna. Temperate savannas ...