Help save French forests

The land is then often left in a deplorable state.

Roots are pulled out any old how and no account is taken of underground springs, so landslides can be the result.

If replanting is done, it is likely to be just conifers.

I have noticed huge areas of trees being taken out. Is this the same in other departments?

Some of the wood apparently goes to China, to be made into furniture to be sold back to France, while some is made into pellets for wood-fuelled central heating stoves.

Woodland management is a normal thing, trees are a resource, they can be harvested, but on this scale it seems irresponsible.

I would be interested to hear readers’ experiences from other parts of France.

Helen Beaney, Argentat