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woodpeckers near any of those patches since then."
• Heck said the agency is leaving intact about 1,168 acres of burned forest for the woodpeckers and other wildlife -- approximately 43 percent of the area charred to varying degrees over more than 3,000 acres.
• But Fazio said that less than 800 acres of that 1,168 is considered suitable for the black-backed woodpeckers, which highly dependent on the most intensely burned forest habitat for the beetle larvae they peck from the bark.
• Heck said she couldn't comment directly on that claim because it's part of the ongoing litigation. She said the district court has denied the group's request for an injunction blocking the logging "citing the project's benefits to the public interest."
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