Rare Woodpecker Sends a Town Running for Its Chain Saws
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: September 24, 2006
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/24/us/24woodpecker.html

"This is a sad story about human greed and self-interest versus nature
and conservation.

BOILING SPRING LAKES, N.C., Sept. 23 (AP) — "Over the past six months, landowners here have been clear-cutting thousands of trees to keep them from becoming homes for the endangered red-cockaded woodpecker.
The chain saws started in February, when the federal Fish and Wildlife Service put Boiling Spring Lakes on notice that rapid development threatened to squeeze out the woodpecker."

It's just so sad to think in this day and age that people would be so misguided.