Trees are respawning in base after stumps were destroyed, bugged and can't destroy said trees. Merged

We (Friend and I) just built our base, clearing out the area we wanted and loading back in this morning found that some of the stumpless trees reformed and are bugged. We can not break them down, the axe doesn't collide at all and just swings through. We have tried to all head back to main menu, realm change, nothing seems to be working to allow us to destroy the trees. Please let us know what can be done, we are newer players and just purchased the game so, maybe this is normal? Maybe we are missing something? It just sucks that our previous base that we built in another realm had trees removed and there was no complications.