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In a haven for maple syrup, a hidden threat endangers a way of life

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HIGHTOWN, Virginia — The woodpecker was the first sign of something strange underway.

Ronnie Moyers heard the bird hammering in the woods one morning in late February, several weeks before the species usually shows up in Virginia’s western highlands.

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