Nest boxes can encourage owls to stick around your yard, but it's best if they're made of untreated wood. This centuries-old technique helps protect them.

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The ivory-bill thrived best in southern pine forests in areas where flooding, fire and other natural disturbance killed trees, which in turn became breeding grounds for insects — chiefly beetle ...