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Ben Goldfarb

Ben Goldfarb is an environmental journalist based in Colorado whose writing has appeared in in National Geographic, the Atlantic, the New Yorker, Smithsonian Magazine, and many other publications. He is the author of Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2018) and Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet (W.W. Norton & Co., 2023). Follow him on Instagram and Bluesky, and read more of his work at www.bengoldfarb.com

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Long leaf pine habitat in the gamelands outside Southern Pines, NC.

The Birds and the Bombs

By Ben Goldfarb & Mac Stone

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June 28, 2016

The fate of the Southeast's longleaf pine forests, and the endangered woodpeckers that depend on them, may rest in the hands of the U.S. military.