Crews at Fontenelle Forest in Bellevue are navigating their way through fallen trees, still assessing the damage from the weekend’s storm.
“I would say every single trail has at least one or two trees on it,” said Michelle Foss, Director of Stewardship & Research, Fontenelle Forest, noting the hurricane-force winds were enough to topple healthy trees. “It’s not even like it was just dead trees that fell.”
Fontenelle Forest covers more than 2,000 acres across its location in Bellevue and Neale Woods in North Omaha.
“We’ve cleared 19 trees today all throughout our upper woodland area and we cleared 10 yesterday, said Shawna Gorman, Land Steward Intern, Fontenelle Forest.
They were hoping to have parts of the popular boardwalk open by Monday but deemed it still too dangerous.
“This morning at about 7 o’clock, we came to check on the boardwalk and close the parts we didn’t want people,” said Foss.