The jury* announced yesterday the names of the 3 winners of the French Tree of the Year. The Jury Prize was awarded to the “Chêne (oak) de Tombebœuf” (Lot-et-Garonne) and the Public Prize to the “Hêtre (beech) de Saint-Jammes à Sorèze” (Tarn). The “Platane (plane tree) of Augy” (Yonne) was awarded the Prize Special mention […]
Agroforestry is a land use management system in which trees or shrubs are grown around or among crops or pastureland. This intentional combination of agriculture and forestry has varied benefits, including increased biodiversity and reduced erosion. This land use mangement is attested since the Antiquity in viticulture as we can read it in Pliny’s […]
The exchange of vows and gifts on the occasion of the New Year (on a date varying according to the periods and to the regions) is a century-old tradition. Indeed, pictures of those traditions have been discovered on ancient Egyptian papyri and on Roman objects from daily life as oil lamp. In the West, […]
Forests and trees have become a real societal issue as shown by the exhibitions on this matter currently planned in Paris and everywhere else. Drawing on multiple sources – poetry, philosophy, science – The dreamer of the Forest crosses eras, media and genres. The exhibition brings together almost a hundred works by some forty […]
Initiated by the city of Rouen in partnership with the ONF, the Monumental Forest is a land art itinerary along wich 13 monumental works are placed. Those works of art help us to understand forest differently. Opened in September 2019, Monumental forest invites people to discover 13 works of art as 13 views of […]
This autumn sale of wood is organized by the west Burgundy ONF agency each year during the first Friday of October. It takes place this year in Clamecy. During this sale, ONF offers for sale wood from the public forest of Nièvre and Yonne. The volume of wood put up for sale this year […]
Population censuses are very useful because, as a snapshot of a precise moment, they inform us about the demographic composition of a territory. Data collected in Murlin through the population censuses shed light on the changes in the professional structure of the village population during the 19th century. As a matter of fact, after […]
The Water and Forest decree has been verified by the Parliament 350 years ago (13 August 1669). This decree unified and improved the forestry legislation established in France since the 14th Century. The Water and Forest decree was written in the continuity of the Council ruling of 15 October 1661 by which Louis XIV began reforming […]
The Médiathèque of Nevers presents, from June 6 2019 to January 4 2020, the exhibition Herbal memories which invites visitors to discrover the full richness of herbariums heritage. Through the pages of those herbariums (in glass cases or on screens to preserve herbariums), the oldest of which dates back to 1754, visitors will discover […]
Connected in the past to rites of passage in traditional societies, tattooing practice was then largely popularized
