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The dream city? A Urban Forest!

The ideal city, according to the French, resembles a urban forest, survey shows. In the view of the Federation of French landscape companies (Unep), who commissioned the survey, such findings reveal ...

A Vade Mecum for the 21st Century Tropical Forest

A revised “Handbook for the Tropical Forester” has been published. This source book had not been updated for over 20 years. This new edition incorporates the new challenges facing ...

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When Included Bark Takes a Chestnut Tree Down

When branch growth competes with the trunk, the tree structure can be compromised. This was the case as regards a chestnut tree in the Parc des Buttes Chaumont, in Paris, France. Included bark ...

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After the Paris Attacks, Memory Trees Are Taking Root

Solidarity tree, memory tree or freedom tree: memorial trees are increasingly planted in France. In Paris, but not only. Towns or villages pay tribute to the victims of the January and November 2015 ...

Public Forests Roadmap Signed by Gov., without Consensus

Three ministers signed the 2016-2020 contract of the French Forests Office (ONF). This new roadmap for public forests is now formalised. But without ...

Harmonised Rules to Save the Planes

Monitor, eliminate, prevent, is the three-pronged approach that prevails now in the whole of France to save the plane, decimated by the canker stain. New legislation aims to curb this disease of the ...

Mix Public and Private Forests (Le Foll)

Bring public and private stakeholders a step closer for the management of forest? Even though it contradicts the recent French Act for the Future of Agriculture, this is a direction announced by ...