You always see those weird treeless spots on hillsides and old timers tell you about the ice storm of ’84 or whatever that wiped out whole forests but this it what it looks like day after.
translated from Hungarian…“We cut off during the freezing rain created by the weight of ice, collapsed trees in forest and communities. Inestimable damage keletkezzet. A shots Nagykoacsi – made Nagyszenas forests.”
Close to 20 thousand hectares of forest affected by the ice-storm in the past few days in the area belongs to Pilisi Forest Zrt. Damage assessment takes weeks; no one knows yet how much of the 20 thousand hectares of forest can recover from the damages and how much of the area requires reforestation…source
