That will be some especially difficult chainsaw job. The mud and sand will dull the saw chain before they are halfway through the first tree. Good luck to them - that is some terrible, heart wrenching work.
Turns out the backwoods forest dwellers are humans too, with genuine hopes, fears, and loved ones. Kinda' makes it hard to caricature them, doesn't it, Stranger staff and Stranger commenters?
It really is a shame this country is so divided.