Long Island, Maine
Debris Removal

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Coleman Clark, Dir. Long Island Emergency Management Agency: The trees are 80 to 100 feet tall. 
Coleman:[on camera] Beautiful nice straight spruce trees, and because they are so tall the sustanined wind of 85 miles per hour they just blew right over.
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Coleman:We are removing the debris,at the same time, we're putting it into different resources.
Coleman:[on camera] the logs are going to a mill to become another product,lumber or furniture or whatever it goes to
the chips are going to bio mass to make electricity, and then the pulp wood is going to make paper.
Shot of man working on fallen trees with chain saw.
Coleman: At the same time, we're removing the fire danger, or reducing the danger, and it's also going to jump start the regrowth of the forest because we've removed all that material off the properties.
Coleman:[on cammera] The debris plan is, on the recommendation of Maine Forest Service we hired the forester.
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Coleman: We worked with Hank Gallant from FEMA 
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Hank Gallant, 
OK, when I first got to Long Island and Dickie Clark took me around, 
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Gallant: I could see that they had a very serious potential problem in a fire situation 
Hank Gallant, Project Specialist, Public Assistance, FEMA [on camera]
[on camera] because if a fire started from a lightning strike or anything like that they would have difficulty getting people off the island. 
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Gallant: It was a very serious problem. 
Coleman: [on camera] Hank's been very supportive, helping me, guiding me in the right places to go to get the information to go ahead. 
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Coleman:So we hired the forester, so the forester came down, did a tour around the island, and he come up with a plan, 
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Coleman: [cont] that basically outlines, where the debris is
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Coleman: [cont.] where the debris is to do a conventional logging operation using hand cutters and skidders.
Shot of truck coming up dirt road in forest.
Coleman: [cont.] to bring the debris out. And we're taking it to a central logging yard, 
Shot of two men standing on dirt road,pointing to forest.
Coleman: [cont] to stockpile and process, before we ship it off the island.
Coleman: [on camera] Everytime I think of it, it really amazes me how we put this together.
Shot of two men walking down dirt road in forest.
Coleman: [cont]: I think it's pretty cool.