Attention government planners: get your heads out of the clouds and realize that your actions have consequences, many of which you can’t anticipate, so tread lightly.
Worried landowners clear cut thousands of trees to prevent them from becoming homes for the endangered bird.
The chain saws started in February when the U-S Fish and Wildlife Service put the town on notice that rapid development threatened to squeeze out the woodpecker.
The town is a state-designated bird sanctuary.
Now the agency says it could soon designate entire neighborhoods as protected habitat.
That has prompted landowners to swarm city hall to apply for lot-clearing permits, believing treeless land won’t be protected for woodpeckers.
Hat tip: Chad Adams.
