The ONF is experimenting with trees that will be viable by 2070 in the face of water stress

Beech trees in the process of decline in Sainte-Baume, in Provence, due to drought.

Oaks from Tronçais, in the Allier, with dead and abnormally high branches due to water stress.

Here are two examples, among many others, which illustrate the damage of the acceleration of global warming in French state forests but also private ones.

Without forgetting, as another equally harmful consequence, the proliferation of bark beetles (insect pests) which are decimating spruce trees throughout France...

To avoid this disaster and adapt the different tree species to climate change - marked by rising temperatures, estimated at between 1.5 and 4°C by 2070 - the foresters of the National Forestry Office (ONF) set up experimental areas.

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