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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plans to resume construction Monday of a pumping station on a river just miles from where the ivory-billed woodpecker, once thought extinct, now lives.
The corps said Friday that it had completed a biological study of the area around the pumping station on the White River and found that continuing with the project is unlikely to adversely affect the rare bird.
The ivory-billed woodpecker was spotted on the nearby Cache River last year. Researchers announced the discovery in April after spending months working to confirm its existence. The secretaries of interior and agriculture said the federal government would spend millions of dollars to protect the bird's habitat.
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