Tens of thousands of trees have been brought down by storms that wreaked havoc across northern and western Poland, the forestry service says.
The storms over the weekend killed six people, including two Girl Guides who were crushed by a falling tree.
Thousands of homes were also damaged.
Poland's chief forester Konrad Tomaszewski said it would take up to two years to clear the fallen trees, and decades for the lost natural habitat to recover.
He called it "undoubtedly the worst disaster in the history of Polish - and perhaps even European - forestry".
In Torun alone, the storms left more than 23,000 hectares of damaged forest. It also destroyed the habitats of rare species.
In a statement (in Polish), Polish State Forests said they found "destroyed bird nests" and "dead animals that failed to escape the storm."
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