The professional will also gather pertinent and valuable information in case you need to pursue this in court. Yes, the MFS will evaluate it as a criminal action but in order to receive any damages you would need to take a civil action. If you go to civil court you will need good information and the best way to have an assessment done is with a resource professional. Again, court is the action if you can't resolve it on a personal level. My neighbor is not the one who did the damage it's the contractor.
Landowners have rights which come part and parcel with responsibilities.
The contractor did the actual work but the landowner has the responsibility. In all likelihood, the landowner will go back on the contractor for damages. Some of this responsibility may have been spelled out in a contract and that would be another document for you to check. If you are going to hire a resource professional, a logger or anyone else, have a signed, written contract to explain details of the agreement. I'm sure that some cases go smoothly and everything works out perfectly.