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[Little Prince]

This is indeed very sad. You can feel a sense of oneness with wild places in a way that you can't amidst throngs of people. But trees are strong. They will always come back. I think children feel this kind of loss more than adults. Hope your little daughter finds another special place in the wild.

 

[taffer]

Ruben let me add some words as well, real sorry to hear of your loss. In some way or another we always have our own paradise on Earth and therefore can imagine how this is.

But happy to hear you all are well, as others say trees are strong and nature forces are in constant battle, give them time and balance will be set again.

 

[RubenBlaedel]

Your forest won't return to its old state in your lifetime, but it will recover eventually. In the mean time, I would expect that you will have new meadows and, perhaps, wild flowers. Perhaps you will find beauty in the transformed landscape.

Robert

In a year or two the different owners of the surounding forest will have finished saving as much wood as possible - probably they will use this large 6-8 wheeled thimber machins that cut, de-branch and chops the large tress in one proces leaving all the branches, roots and "dead" trees behind. I have seen this scenery many times - not after a storm but just when they decide to cut down a piece of forest. I wish I was a giant with very large "lawnrake" so I could clean up the mess and plant a vararity of different trees - what usually happens in Sweden is that they plant the same sort of fast growing spruce trees all over in order to be able to supply the paper industries - that is not biodiversity but biomonotopy.
I might sneak out in the night the next say 50-70 years and plant some oak, pine and maple trees inbetween the spruces.

 

[Jarvis]

Ruben, it is a loss for sure, but cannot be replaced however big ones grief is..... so get over your your first line of grief and see this a an opportunity or perhaps a challenge to rebuild it you way, incorporate your children and grand children in the whole thing, and in 50 years time your grandchildren, then probably granddads and grandmums too will feel exactly the same way you did about it and treasure it highly for they helped make it what it is ...