Give me strength to believe in the rejuvenating power of nature!

The utility company has rediscovered a sewer line that runs next to and onto one side of my property, making a turn away from my property at the back corner where there's a manhole. The lot it turns onto is vacant. This line has to have been "lost" by them for a good 15 years because mature trees had grown up, and some died, during that time. They need to clear a path along it. They began clearing without so much as stopping to knock on my door to inform me what was going on. I heard a lot of snapping of trees going on and went to check it out to discover that most of the adjacent lot had been cleared. The damage to my own had been minor by comparison but the dozerman had pushed two bunches of downed trees onto my property. I stopped him to discover what was going on and asked if he would remove the trees from my property. He was very nice but this required that I call higher ups and register a complaint. I did so this morning and in setting out to do the work in the past hour he pulled out more than he needed to. Each time I checked, I was tempted to go down and stop him but held back. It's hard to be delicate with a bulldozer/backhoe. His intentions were good. He was doing what he could to leave the big trees, my main complaint being that he was clearing a lot of brush that he no doubt thought of as a nuisance but which I consider small bird habitat and a visual screen.  The woodsy nature of my back area has taken a serious hit. Some stuff needed to come out anyway and my fiance and I had been slowly taking out some of the dead stuff and excess saplings. The idea was to keep it as natural as possible. Now I have to rethink the situation. A third to a half of my back area (which is off a steep bank and has very obviously been considered a junk area to other land owners) has now been cleared. What there was to hold the soil in place is gone. The shrubs are gone. The woodland habitat is gone. Some of it must remain gone to allow for the easement and the rest I need to decide whether to let go wild in its own time or do some planting to help it along.