DNR

The federal government has officially removed the red-cockaded woodpecker from the federal government's "endangered" list and downgraded the bird's status to "threatened" as of Nov. 25, 2024. South Carolina's Department of Natural Resources attributed the down-listing to in-state and Southeast conservation efforts.

Somewhere at the middle-end of the 19th century, a railroad tunnel under construction in Walhalla partially collapsed and left behind a cave that tricolor…