I would like to address the great work that was done by the Department of Conservation (DOC) during the enactment of the temporary legislation passed in 2014, because it had to start from scratch and set up all of the systems for extracting timber. DOC had not previously had to manage anything like the scale of this event. They had to set up the tender process. They had to set up and define the areas that could be accessed. They had on-the-ground oversight of the operations, and health and safety, of course, was a major consideration because the way the wind had rotated had brought the trees down in all directions like Pick-up Sticks. So the potential for accidents was high. Every log that was approved for extraction was tagged, and those tagged logs were then tracked through extraction, through transport, though milling, and then on to the sale. The health of the forest, of course, was always a priority so DOC was always careful that the forest areas were not completely cleared. In fact, only a small percentage of the trees were able to be extracted and only a small percentage of each tree was able to be removed. There was always plenty remaining for the natural ecosystem. 