Lorraine. The forest is the victim of multiple predations

While China's appetite for our hardwood logs continues to worry the industry, this new El Dorado of French oak is far from the only shadow over the future of our high forests. Chronic droughts, particularly those of 2016, 2018, and 2020, have severely damaged the Grand Est forest. It covers some 1.9 million hectares of the regional territory, 42% of which belongs to more than 310,000 private owners, 38% to municipalities, and...

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