News from the Trees for Future research project

A planting campaign in full swing!

The 2021/2022 planting campaign is drawing to a close, with the last trees to be planted in the coming weeks. In all, there are 19410 trees that have been planted across 15 sites including 7 new ones such as Bergeval, Gomery, Ciergnon and Saint-Léger. This represents 67 new experimental plots of 20 ares.

On these, we test new speciessuch as :

Oriental beech – Bosnian pine – Hungarian oak – Liquidambar

We are also testing southern origins native species, such as :

Sessile oak of Gascony and the Saône valley (France) - Common beech southern Massif Central (France)

Finally, we broadening the range of sources for certain species already planted in previous years :

Scaly Oak from Bulgaria - Pubescent Oak Italy and south-eastern France - Byzantine Hazel from Bulgaria

Appointments have been made for spring 2022 with the various owners and managers of these new plantations to begin monitoring their health and growth.