Here you can see the before and after:
It looks bleak, but that’s partly because of the season. Next year, with the help of some seed, I’m hoping to get some more things to grow at ground level. That will partly depend on my cunning at protecting any plants and bushes from the cows and goats. The goats love their new pasture, they were afraid of the forest.
Recently they have been out there on their own every day:
That long greenish strip by the roadside (above Vesla in the picture above) is the pile of branches that were stripped off the trunks, turning them into proper “logs”. They’ll leave it for a year and then sell it to make paper pulp.
The lumberjack said they’re required by law to leave a few of the tree type they’ve chopped down, as well as some dead and overturned trees. It’s for birds and animals so they still have material to make nests; nature’s IKEA.
It still seems pretty odd to be able to see this from our house:
It reminds me of the six pine trees in Winnie The Pooh.
It reminds Holly it’s time for lunch.
A Bad Guide 
It would appear that the BBC has gone to the goats, too.
Well, that’s interesting. I’m not saying their naive; just that I’ll believe that goats will help new trees to grow when I see it. There are three goats here, there’s no overgrazing.
I don’t understand the rationale behind the comment on the BBC picture. Bringing such a large herd of goats on the top of this hill seems like a recipe for disaster: they will eat all the leaves and twigs and their trampling, although perhaps not as bad as that of cows (which could probably not make it up the steep hill, or find suitable food there) will contribute to erosion, even if it uncovers a some caches of seeds, which will not germinate in peace in the disturbed environment.
The BBC is not giving an adequate explanation of how this is supposed to work; there may not be one either.