AP: Rare bird causes logging frenzy

I am so glad that I could not make sense of this article at first... why, upon discovering an endangered species, would people intentionally cut down their habitat? For money, of course!

Rare Woodpecker Sends a Town Running for Its Chain Saws
(AP)
Landowners in a North Carolina town have been clear-cutting thousands of trees to keep them from becoming homes for the endangered red-cockaded woodpecker.