Jim received funding from the College of Forestry to initate a study of the breeding ecology of the Black-backed Woodpecker in burned and unburned forests of southern Oregon. For reasons currently unknown, this species uses unburned forest for nesting in Oregon, a pattern that differs from other parts of its range in the western U.S. This work is being undertaken with co-PI Jake Verschuyl at NCASI and will get started in late spring 2018.