A new study has found something unexpected and scientists aren’t yet sure how to explain it. More than three decades ago, a team of researchers undertook a project near Moosehead Lake to document how songbirds were being affected by commercial forest practices including clearcutting. They found that birds and logging can coexist as long as there are different ages and types of trees present across a large landscape. But, in 2019 concern about birds reached a fever pitch.