Question 17481 — woods and forests

Summary

Ms. Sylvie Ferrer draws the attention of the Minister of Ecological Transition, Biodiversity and International Negotiations on Climate and Nature to the replanting policy within the Trois Pignons massif after the dramatic fire in July. Policies to plant fast-growing softwoods to meet the exclusive needs of the lumber industry are among the causes cited for favored the start and spread of the fire. The National Assembly, in its information report of May 2023, recommended putting an end to monoculture, which is particularly conducive to disease and fire. It recommended generalizing the “mosaic forest”, which mixes varied species and different ages to strengthen the overall resilience of the massifs. Faced with climate change, softwoods are a highly flammable species which does not release stumps after a fire. Conversely, more resilient hardwood species, such as holm oak or cork oak, slow the spread of fire and have a formidable capacity for natural regeneration. The successive reports from Parliament and the Court of Auditors demonstrate this: the State imposes on the ONF a short-term commercial profitability trajectory, a real policy of financialization of the alive. Constrained by yield objectives imposed from above, ONF agents find themselves pushed to favor the monoculture of conifers, notably pines, Douglas fir, and spruces. The ONF agents in the field, whose dedication the MP salutes, are subjected to this accounting logic which suffocates their public service mission. Thus, restrictive employment plans have led to a reduction in its workforce of 12.3% since 2013. The report of the Court of Auditors of May 2024 concludes that the human resources of the establishment now appear insufficient to respond to the growing missions assigned to it. The staff reductions within the ONF were extended to the number of forestry workers which the establishment now increasingly needs to respond to silvicultural work to renew public forests, in the absence alternative on the private market, as well as to strengthen its forest fire surveillance missions. Consequently, she asks him if the Government finally intends to allow the ONF to fulfill its mission based on the ecological emergency and to initiate a real silvicultural transition, if it can guarantee that the replanting of the Trois Pignons forest will favor resilient hardwood species in the face of forest fires. tomorrow and whether he intends to replant the forest of yesterday or that of tomorrow.

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1. 4 August 2026

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