Clear cutting at Caddo Lake might have national implications if Lexie Palmore's eyes did not deceive her last month.

Palmore believes she saw an ivory-billed woodpecker on the lake, in the Turtle Shell area, a bird that wildlife scientists believed was extinct until April 2005.

The bird had not been seen for 60 years.

When a coalition of scientists confirmed seven sightings on the Cache River, in Arkansas, it was an event that made national news.

The bird disappeared when the country's large bottomland forests were logged out, Palmore said. The woodpecker feeds on carpenter ants that, in turn, feed on hardwood.