My husband is insisting on getting a chain saw to get some of the dead trees out of there. Also I think he just wants a chainsaw. LOL. We have taken all the trees out of the front yard. There was no grass because there was too much shade, and therefore the soil eroded by about a foot in places. The front yard basically washed into the back yard. We put down sod, so not it's pretty nice out front. I dread the back though. I know there are dead animals untold back there.