In November 2004, the High Tatras had a tremendous wind storm. It blew down much of the forest along a 25 kilometer stretch. When we first saw the area, we thought they had been lumbering. Whole mountain sides were nude. By the second day, we noticed that the trees had been uprooted and then harvested. All the trees had fallen in the same direction. In a few areas, after salvaging the wood, they'd burned the fields. We read that it was one of the biggest natural disasters in the country's history.
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