Woodpeckers in Angora?

The Angora Fire continues to produce fall out of various types. The insurance issues, building permits, fire protection requirements have all been aired here,there, and everywhere. And now:
Woodpeckers!!!!!!
If you have lived in the Basin for more than a week, you know that woodpeckers abound. Their evidence is not hard to recognize: holes in your house: holes in the eaves, holes in the roof, holes in the siding, and holes in the occasional tree(living or dead). Now I recently interviewed a local resident from the West Shore, and he assured me that a well painted house is a deterrent to woodpecker activity. Why all this concern for woodpecker activity?
Lawsuit.
Environmental organizations have filed suit in federal court to halt the harvesting of burned trees in the Angora Fire area near Meyers?South Lake Tahoe. The area consists of over 1200 acres with a large number of trees that were scorched/burned during the active fire. Foresters and firefighters are prepared to remove this unburned fuel to ensure the growth of a healthy forest where none exists due to the burn over. Most locals know that woodpeckers like dead tree stumps(snags) to create nests: makes sense if you're a pecker!
Locals also know that woodpeckers often delight in pecking one's house-looks like a tree, smells like a tree, tastes like a tree=tree! But the issue is, in this case, fire safety and forest health versus a few birds. We are talking 2-3 or 22-24 pairs of woodpeckers. Not large numbers at all. The black-backed pecker is not endangered, although the request has been made for such designation. It will be interesting to see how the judiciary looks at this little issue: pecker heads and dead logs.
Stay tuned for more updates on Angora's woodpecker problem.