More than 800 tonnes of firewood has been salvaged from Invercargill’s Queens Park in the cleanup after October’s storm. The park was initially closed due to the damage, which has taken months to deal with. Invercargill City Council parks and recreation manager Caroline Rain said anyone who walked down Coronation Ave today could be forgiven for forgetting the sheer scale of devastation in Queens Park just six months ago. ‘‘It has taken a huge amount of work to restore the park to the safe and beautiful public space we all know and love.’’ The storm’s damage resulted in more than 800 tonnes of firewood, 480 tonnes of saleable logs and 6500cu m of mulch being created. By early March, nearly 800 trees had been removed from the park and about 630 trees climbed and pruned. The canopies of 50 trees had been reduced in size and three trees had metal braces installed to ensure their structural integrity.…