More than 80 per cent of timber-harvesting machinery here is working on storm-hit plantations
Storm Éowyn floored 26,000 hectares of mostly mature trees and an industry group says the clean-up is not progressing fast enough. Photograph: iStockForestry was one of the worst hit industries when the record-breaking storm struck in January.
However, Derek McCabe, chairman of industry group Irish Forest Owners, estimated that just 2 per cent of storm-felled timber had been recovered by last week. His group represents private forest owners, many of whom originally planted trees on their properties several decades ago.Mr Bruton noted that his business, Euroforest Ireland, alone had recovered about 2 per cent of the timber knocked over by Storm Éowyn.
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