OPERATION KNOCK ON WOOD

摘要

FOR 69 YEARS, NORTH CAROLINA'S FORT BRAGG HAS trained the U.S. Army's elite and airborne troops. Soldiers drilled at the fort have served in wars from Korea to Afghanistan. But in 1990, the base's top brass encountered an unexpected foe that threatened to shut down Fort Bragg's highly tuned operations: the red-cockaded woodpecker. After years of charting the bird's rapid decline and trajectory toward extinction, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service issued a "jeopardy biological opinion" in 1990, requiring the base to take action to recover its woodpecker population or face sharp restrictions on military training activities.