Commune forestière face au changement climatique

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Le bois était notre trésor : affaiblie par le déclin de sa vaste forêt de résineux, endettée, la petite commune forestière de Lemuy (Jura) prend soin de ses bois pour envisager l'avenir. - L'info en continu  https://buzzplus.fr/ Infos, news & actualités - L'information internationale en direct.

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00:00 The wood was our treasure.

00:01 Weakened by the decline of its vast forest of resinous,

00:04 endowed,

00:05 the small forest community of Lemuy, Jura,

00:07 takes care of its woods to consider the future.

00:10 At the foothill of the village, where live 244 inhabitants,

00:13 beyond the meadows,

00:14 cress trees and spruces spread out at a loss of sight.

00:18 This forest, made of resin by the 20th century man-alogue, covers 1,000 hectares,

00:21 that is, almost half of the surface of this community located at 670 meters

00:25 altitude on the first plateau of the Jura massif.

00:29 The exploitation of the 358 hectares belonging to the municipality has long been

00:32 a man-game allowing to finance 80% of its budget,

00:36 according to its mayor Damien Castella.

00:38 This good quality wood is essentially sold to local sawmills as

00:41 wood for carpentry or construction.

00:44 But from 2018,

00:45 the droughts of repetition are hurting the Epicea,

00:48 victim of a ravaging insect,

00:50 the Scolite,

00:51 then the tree that dies of thirst on a limestone soil not inclined to retain water.

00:55 According to a report of the Court of Accounts published on Tuesday,

00:58 70% of the community forest, of Lemuy, is affected,

01:02 30% is already destroyed.

01:04 Overindebted.

01:06 In the woods,

01:07 some cuttings arise at the detour of a plot of vertical trunks,

01:10 and throwing their thorny spruces towards the sky.

01:13 The clumps of Epicea without bark,

01:15 perched on galleries dug by the Scolites,

01:18 border the forest paths.

01:20 We try to treat all affected areas and limit the spread of the Scolites,

01:24 but given the quantity it is difficult.

01:26 It is the dry wood race,

01:28 confided Rafael Colombet,

01:29 Forestry Technician of the National Office of Forests,

01:32 ONF,

01:33 Public Forest Management,

01:35 on the sector.

01:36 The Lemuy village had invested 1.4 million euros to re-develop its main street in 2017.

01:43 But the resources of the community from the sale of wood,

01:46 between 130,000 and 140,000 euros in 2017,

01:49 were divided by 3 between 2017 and 2022.

01:52 Wood was our gold mine,

01:54 we had an incredible ability to repay.

01:58 A few years ago,

01:59 we did not ask ourselves any questions,

02:00 says Mr. Castella,

02:02 elected mayor in 2020.

02:04 Our investment capacity is now zero

02:06 and our municipality is over-indebted,

02:08 until 2038,

02:10 with a debt per inhabitant ten times higher than the departmental level,

02:13 continues this farmer by profession,

02:15 milk producer in Comté and Morbié.

02:18 Mahantis,

02:19 is the sub-duty of the village by the prefecture.

02:23 Diversified forests.

02:24 Since 2018,

02:26 forestry municipalities have been trying to sell dry wood

02:28 and to contingent the offer in non-scolite green wood,

02:31 to not saturate the market.

02:33 Today, more wood is harvested than the forest can produce,

02:37 which leads to a price drop.

02:39 These are harvests suffered,

02:40 we decapitalize,

02:42 worries Olivier Guéry,

02:43 responsible for the territorial unity of the ONF.

02:47 The fate of Lemuy is emblematic.

02:49 In the Jura,

02:50 about fifty of the 490 forestry municipalities,

02:53 that is 95% of the departments,

02:56 are facing financial difficulties,

02:58 says Michel Bourgeois,

02:59 president of the Association of Forestry Municipalities of the Jura.

03:03 In the 2024 finance law,

03:05 the aid to help forestry municipalities has doubled,

03:08 going to 2 million euros,

03:09 it's good but it's still far from our estimated needs

03:11 at more than 8 million euros at the national level,

03:13 notes Françoise Alric,

03:15 general director of the National Federation of Forestry Municipalities.

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