The latest count of Kirtland's warblers found about 2,300 pairs in the U.S. and Canada -- enough for the tiny yellow-bellied songbird to be removed from a federal endangered species list.
FILE - This May 19, 2008, file photo shows a Kirtland's warbler, an endangered songbird that lives in the jack pine forests of northern Michigan, near Mio, Mich. More than a half-century after declaring the Kirtland's warbler endangered, the federal government Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2019, said the small, yellow-bellied songbird had recovered and was being dropped from its list of protected species.
“We’ve transitioned from bringing this species out of the emergency room to providing it with long-term stability,” said Dan Kennedy, endangered species coordinator with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources. “The job now is to ensure that this species continues to have a healthy population.” To enlarge it, agencies developed a system of logging overgrown pine stands and replanting new ones to imitate what nature previously did.
More than 210,000 acres of state and national forest lands were designated as warbler habitat and management techniques improved, said Scott Hicks, a field office supervisor with the service. When planners saw that a 1980 wildfire in the Huron-Manistee National Forest opened the way to large sections of new jack pines that were a magnet for warblers, they began cutting and replanting bigger blocks of trees.
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