Endangered woodpecker returns to Sumter National

**BRR** · 03-25-2018, 02:58 PM

How do they taste fried?

**Sportin' Woodies** · 03-25-2018, 04:53 PM

Like juvie eagle

**Strick9** · 03-25-2018, 05:23 PM

RCW= Cash Cow. Not to be a rain on anyones parade but managing for the RCW on NF land has been one of the most professed excusess by the USFS for the rampant nesting season burns which are certainly not conducive to breeding quail nor turkey.

**SC quacker2** · 03-25-2018, 07:41 PM

Originally Posted by Palmetto Bug

RCWs are great until you find them nesting on your property.

Until one of your neighbors complains about smoke...

**Drylok** · 03-26-2018, 11:17 AM

H Cooper Black State Park seems to have quite a few of the RCW's around. They love those big, tall pines.

**Beauregard** · 03-26-2018, 11:53 AM

Originally Posted by Swamp Rat

Used to be a population on Fort Jackson.

Still is.

**Beauregard** · 03-26-2018, 12:03 PM

WIS describes the species as being "last seen in the Midlands during the mid-1970s." Fort Jackson, McEntire, Manchester, Poinsett, etc. must not be in the Midlands.

**Islandguy85** · 03-26-2018, 12:06 PM

F a RCW

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**2thDoc** · 03-26-2018, 12:33 PM

Originally Posted by Strick9

RCW= Cash Cow. Not to be a rain on anyones parade but managing for the RCW on NF land has been one of the most professed excusess by the USFS for the rampant nesting season burns which are certainly not conducive to breeding quail nor turkey.

as soon as I read the article I thought if you....and, I started wondering if the RCW was ever mentioned during the last 30 yrs of burning....

**smitch320** · 03-26-2018, 12:48 PM

Originally Posted by Beauregard

WIS describes the species as being "last seen in the Midlands during the mid-1970s." Fort Jackson, McEntire, Manchester, Poinsett, etc. must not be in the Midlands.

My thoughts as well haha. Learn something new everyday...

**Phone Man** · 03-26-2018, 01:31 PM

if I owned pine trees and saw one, I would never tell a soul

**Islandguy85** · 03-26-2018, 06:58 PM

Talked w a guy a while ago who apparently was assigned to watch nests in the mornings and write down the time they leave. After a while of doing this, He said they started leaving at whatever time he started hitting the bottom of the tree

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**Strick9** · 03-26-2018, 07:33 PM

Originally Posted by 2thDoc

as soon as I read the article I thought if you....and, I started wondering if the RCW was ever mentioned during the last 30 yrs of burning....

The burn plan and objectives of the USFS usually read in this order.

1. Fuel Reduction.
2. Prevention of catastrophic fire ( which certainly didn't help when a recent wildfire occurred in a compartment two weeks ago that had been burned only two years ago, this fire was allowed to cover over 1600 acres before containment and cost the taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars).
3. RCW habitat management.

**Tater** · 03-27-2018, 08:12 AM

I was at Webb with my WB 350 class in ‘84 when Tim Fendley pointed to an RCW nest tree and said, “fellas, jump on that mother fucker right there and ride it out to retirement”.

**Strick9** · 03-27-2018, 08:39 PM

Don't doubt it one bit Tater. I worked them as well with the USFS. Four of us to a crew weekly for 9 months, hotel rooms, gas, per diem, overtime, crazy equipment etc.. I hope to never climb another cavity tree on a swiss ladder.

**Islandguy85** · 03-28-2018, 08:30 AM

Originally Posted by Strick9

Don't doubt it one bit Tater. I worked them as well with the USFS. Four of us to a crew weekly for 9 months, hotel rooms, gas, per diem, overtime, crazy equipment etc.. I hope to never climb another cavity tree on a swiss ladder.

All for a fn rcw..... insane.

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