More than 2 months after the storm Burglind has uprooted half of the trees in our land, the Forestry Service comes to begin the clean up work. 4 workers with heavy machinery and motor saws arrive early and get to work promptly. 

All day long, the men & their machines are at work -- Sawing, digging, excavating, pulling, hauling - leaving behind craters where once the tree roots lived. 

These redwood tree trunks are huge. "Since they have pretty big branches, the trunks are not best suited to be split for firewood" explains one of the workers.

As the last of the tree trunks & roots get hauled away, we thank the Trees for having enriched our Forest with their presence and for the gift of firewood that they now bestow upon us..

Slowly a new landscape begins to emerge from the debris left behind by the storm. Our fairy-tale mossy path unto the house is finally clear to be walked on again. And the access road to the house is also free of the big tree trunks. All that's left behind are branches for us to clean up & stack as firewood.

A big THANK YOU to the Forestry Service Team!!