The acorn woodpecker is the only bird that can eat chestnuts and acorns. These birds hide the seeds in the cracks of tree bark. Squirrels will raid the bird's hiding spots and in turn hide the seeds on the ground. Most of the seeds are eventually eaten but a few grow into large chestnut and oak trees.
Species protection strategy criticized
Species protection strategy criticized Former provincial Chief of Wildlife Conservation,
Ray Demarchi, says that B.C.'s new Wildlife Management Strategy
does not offer wildlife species adequate protection from clearcut
logging. "Identified wildlife" are those species which require
extra protection or special forest practices to ensure their
survival. The new strategy allows for putting aside no more than 1
per cent of B.C.'s timber supply for species whose habitat is at
risk from logging. Demarchi says that it does not offer enough
protection for the identified wildlife and does nothing at all for
those species which have not been classified as threatened but
could still be negatively affected by habitat
destruction.
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