Cleaning up after the storm

A tour de force in Tyrol’s forests is almost complete

Forest warden Hannes Wildauer and "Krone" editor Andreas Moser at one of the temporary timber stores, which were already filling up in the fall.(Bild: Birbaumer Christof)

90 percent of last year's devastating storm damage with around 600,000 cubic meters of damaged wood has been cleared. The race against the bark beetle is therefore going well, but the state is not yet giving the all-clear. Other events have also occurred.

What a stormy night it was from July 11 to 12 last year! Afterwards, around 600,000 cubic meters of wood lay in the forests like bent matchsticks, entire mountain slopes were practically "shaved off".