SHORT COMMUNICATIONS 
383 
1 kilometer 
© BBWO nest 
-study area boundary 
. edge of burn area 
\ unbumed mature 
t jack pine 
Si-gggi-s burned mature 
sisiwll pine forest 
11 1 burned mixed 
===== forest 
burned 5-15' 
jack pine 
salvage clearcut 
Feb.-Mar. 
; 50% salvage cut 
: Jan.-Feb. 
| unmarked areas within burn 
*a - clearcut prior to Fire 
FIG. I. Black-backed Woodpecker nest locations within a 93-ha study area consisting of burned mature pine forest on 
the Baraga Plains. Baraga County. Michigan. 2008. 
also low. indicating nests were widely dispersed (r 
= 0.228, mean vector angle = 225.9 ). 
DISCUSSION 
Prior to the 2008 burn. Black-backed Wood¬ 
peckers were present as rare permanent residents 
in the general burn area on the Baraga Plains, 
nesting in small numbers (single nests found in 
1999 and 2000) in mature jack pine stands 
(Binford 2006). Our data indicate high densities 
of Black-backed Woodpeckers nesting in the 
93-ha and 19-ha study areas in comparison to 
