Saône-et-Loire. Where is the tallest Douglas fir tree overlooking Burgundy?

It is on one of the paths on the northern slope of the Arboretum de Pezanin , in Dompierre-les-Ormes, that the one that has now become the celebrity of the place rises to a height of 57 meters. If you are not careful, and especially if our guide is not there to point it out to us, you could almost walk past it without paying it the attention it deserves. And indeed, when you look up to the sky, the majesty of the tree imposes itself. Almost to the point of making you dizzy.

Joffrey Eggenspieler, a forestry technician with the National Forestry Office (ONF), has a keen eye. And for good reason. He joined the ONF in Alsace, in the Vosges, in 1998. After Martinique, he has been in Saône-et-Loire for the past five years, in charge of managing the Arboretum. It was initially "out of simple curiosity" that the idea of measuring this particular Douglas fir was born. "In this type of stand, the trees are all more or less the same height," he notes. Compared to his older...

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