Agency Releases Woodpecker Recovery Plan

August 23, 2007 By JILL ZEMAN, Associated Press Writer

(AP) -- Preventing the extinction of the elusive ivory-billed woodpecker could cost more than $27 million over five years, according to a draft recovery plan released by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.



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