CLARKSBURG, W.Va. (WBOY) — It might sound counterproductive, but the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources (WVDNR) is cutting down trees to improve the habitat of West Virginia's "unofficial state bird" — the cerulean warbler.

12 News spoke with West Virginia State Ornithologist Richard Bailey, who said that in the 1880s to 1920s, much of the state's forests were logged, causing large portions of forest to regrow at the same time. This regrowth has resulted in a lack of diversity in the ages of trees throughout the state forests, Bailey said.

"In other words, there's no gaps in the forest canopy. There's not much in the way of daylight reaching the forest floor," Bailey explained. "It creates this structurally not very complex forest stand where you have what looks like a forest, b

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