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Forest Management and forestry methods in France
Forest Management and forestry methods in
France (UE)
Forest Management and forestry methods in France
French Forest areas fast development
0,02,04,06,08,0
10,012,014,016,018,0
1750 1800 1850 1900 1950 2000 2050
Years
millionha
Forest Management and forestry methods in France
Forest resource
• For the last two centuries, French forest area has developed mainly on abandoned former agricultural lands.
• On the contrary, deforestation has gone on near cities or where the new transport infrastructures were built.
• Therefore, an important part of French forests are now located on poor soils, far from the major roads and from the consumers.
Forest Management and forestry methods in France
Forest resource
• If a significant part of that expansion is the result of tax reductions and financial help from French government aiming at the development of a national forest resource …
• … the major part of it results from natural afforestation or private investments.
• Therefore, more than 75% of French forests are privately owned,
• the average size of them being 4 ha.
Forest Management and forestry methods in France
0
5 000
10 000
15 000
20 000
25 000
1945 1950 1955 1960 1965 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000
1 000 m3
Bois d'oeuvre résineux Bois d'oeuvre feuillus Bois d'industrie
Industrial wood removals
Softwood logs Hardwood logs Pulpwood
Forest Management and forestry methods in France
Forest balance
Annual total yield
100 millions m3
Annual total yield
100 millions m3
Annual total felling
58 millions m3
Annual total felling
58 millions m3
Source : IFN 2004
AGRESTE 2003
Forest Management and forestry methods in France
Forest management issues
• On the biological side :– Insufficient fellings : 58 % of the growth– Forest decay through oldering stands– Increased impact of storms
• On the economical side– Oversupply of wood, specially hardwood– Demand for lower prices– Demand for non-commercial forest services– Decreasing revenues from forests both public and
private
Forest Management and forestry methods in France
French forests are the most diversified in Europe
126 different tree species
Continental, oceanic, Mediterranean, alpine, tempered and tropical habitats
Forest types diversity
Forest Management and forestry methods in France
27 of the 50 European forest ecosystems existing
Nearly 50 % in the French ZNIEFF (national biodiversity inventory)
Forest diversity
Forest Management and forestry methods in France
The National forest program
• Develop employment and create value– Decrease fragmentation and improve common
management
– Increase fellings
• Reinforce wood and paper industries• Increase contribution in fight against climate
change– Help development of energy wood or wood as an
ecomaterial
Forest Management and forestry methods in France
The National forest program
• Promote a sustainable management of forests– Increase biological production of forests and anticipate
climate change– Conserve ordinary as well as remarkable biodiversity– Overseas, conciliate local development and exceptional
biodiversity conservation– Improve owners and foresters formation and public
information
• Act at different levels– Integrate forest and its different uses in territorial politics
Forest Management and forestry methods in France
Forest methods
• No doubt that foresters will have to ...
• ... adapt a fast changing context,
• ... face increasing public opinion critics,
• ... justify any euro invested in forest policy,
• ... change their working methods.
Forest Management and forestry methods in France
Forest methods
• Renewed silvicultural techniques :– Less intensive and cheaper
• Renewed management techniques– More public debate– More public relations– Necessity of certification
Fast growing administration costs
Forest Management and forestry methods in France
The question is :
• Who is going to pay for it all ?
Forest Management and forestry methods in France
Forest Management and forestry methods in France
Forest Management and forestry methods in France
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