The article deals with the rehabilitation of the site of the fire in 2006 in the surroundings of Komen. The majority of the burned area is privately owned and the Gozdno gospodarstvo Postojna d.d. (Forest Management Postojna ltd.) has a concession in the state owned forests of the area. A rehabilitation plananticipating planting and sowing for the purpose of forest regeneration and removal of the excessive biomass was made. This demanding task was done bythe use of the modern technology of mechanized cutting and export of the roundwood and chipping debris and other biomass for wood chip production. The following mechanization was used: caterpillar and wheel harvester, two semi-trailer forwarders and a chipper on a forwarder. The transport of chips was performed by containers and appropriate autoloading trucks.
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