PG&E removed 91,000 trees from near power lines, many of which were stored temporarily in non-permitted log decks. That’s what Broshears called the first phase of tree removal and processing.

Exports of logs rather than processing the timber locally has long been a concern since numerous promises have been made by the government and foreign investors about value-added operations.

Treeist tree service workers use a variety of equipment to trim branches and limbs, take down trees and load the logs into chipper machines or onto trucks to be transported off a job site.