Hurricane damage to wildlife habitat

Following is excerpted from WashingtonPost.com story on the impact of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita on wildlife habitat and natural buffers:

". . .In Mississippi's Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge, the hurricane felled pine trees crucial to the survival of the endangered red-cockaded woodpecker; Breton Island, a sanctuary for nesting and wintering seabirds and shorebirds, has largely washed away. . ."

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