Adapting forests to climate change: FuturForEst
FuturForEst came to an end in early 2023. The project began in 2019, shortly after Trees for Future brought together players from the French public (ONF and association of forest communities) and private (CNPF) forests, as well as the SRFB.
No pun intended, FuturForEst was to install islands of 10 different new tree species as part of the process of adapting the region's forests. Great East to climate change.
The aim of FuturForEst was to test five new hardwood and five new softwood species for the forests of the Grand Est region with the following potential capacities:
- be tolerant of the current climate (resistant to late frosts and very low temperatures),
- be adapted to future climatic conditions (resistance to drought and extreme heat),
- produce quality timber under these conditions.
The broadleaved trees selected include Hungarian oak, downy oak, swamp oak, Byzantine hazel and American copalm; the softwoods include Cilician fir, Macedonian pine, calocedar, Arizona cypress and evergreen sequoia.
The planting work took place between November 2020 and January 2023. As a result, 70 devices will have been installed in public and private forests: 19 sites in private forests, 25 sites in communal forests and 26 sites in state-owned forests.
This project was directly linked to our Trees for future and both have benefited from the experience gained with new species on both sides of the Franco-Belgian border. The results of the project are more than positive. Discover the brochure presenting the main results of the project.
