Bob Bolling 's Website in Galicia, Northwest Spain

They've clear-cut the eucalyptus and pine trees on six acres of the woods next to us. The land hadn't been maintained at all and the eucalyptus had been re-seeding for many years. The trees eventually got so thick that it seemed more like a jungle than woods.

The absentee owner hired people to cut and sell all the pine and eucalyptus, leaving the few oak, chestnut and laurel trees - mostly along the perimeter of the land. Two days after they finished cutting, most of the trunks had been hauled away and the land looked like the pictures below.

Clear Cutting October 2004
They've clear-cut the eucalyptus and pine trees on six acres of the woods next to us. The land hadn't been maintained at all and the eucalyptus had been re-seeding for many years. The trees eventually got so thick that it seemed more like a jungle than woods. The absentee owner hired people to cut and sell all the pine and eucalyptus, leaving the few oak, chestnut and laurel trees - mostly along the perimeter of the land. Two days after they finished cutting, most of the trunks had been hauled away and the land looked like the pictures below.
This piece of land used to be thick with eucalyptus and pine trees. Now it looks like somebody dropped a "daisy cutter" bomb. The eucalyptus trees in the background belong to someone else and won't be cut - yet.
The oak and chestnut trees in the background remain because they're ours.	We never knew this hill and big rock were here until they cut the trees.
We feel bad for whatever wildlife there was - squirrels, wild hogs and maybe a few deer. And we're no longer sheltered from winds that sometimes blow from that direction. We just hope that the oak and chestnut trees still standing along our property line grow bigger and stronger, now that they'll be getting more light and air. (See how they cut one of our pines at Cutting It Close.)