The red-cockaded woodpecker has been listed as endangered for more than half a century, but that could soon change.
In the final months of the Trump administration, federal wildlife officials started a process to downgrade its status to “threatened.”
Conservation groups say science doesn’t support the move, and that it could undermine gains made in part with the help of unusual public-private partnerships that have taken decades of work and millions of dollars.
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