I’m with the Alabama Forestry

Commission. I’m a wild land

coordinating group power saw

instructor, and recently due to

the April tornadoes that affected

Alabama, much of the urban

forest has been laid on the

ground; and I’m here to

instruct you on the proper

steps to remove that forest

if you decide to use a chainsaw.

Often after a tornado or a

hurricane, we find debris

mixed with trees. We do

not recommend that you

do any cutting in these

types of situations…

because often time we find

the trees react differently

then when they would in

a normal circumstance,

such as this. This tree has

split causing the debris