Sylviculture par collectifs dans les forêts de montagne: Principes et exemples d'application

Abstract

So as to durably establish the protective role of mountain forests, the stability of artificial, regular stands in mountain forests needs to be maintained. These stands may be given community-based silvicultural treatment. Under such schemes, foresters no longer are focussing on the individual tree but rather on a group of trees. This silvicultural approach is still unusual in the French Alps. To refine the community-based silvicultural technique and create awareness thereof among foresters, it seemed appropriate to set up a scheme for demonstrative and practical purposes. This scheme was set up in a high altitude spruce forest in the Celliers en Savoie municipality and has been used to train French foresters in the community-based approach for the last two years.