CNPF’s missions
The center National Forest Property (CNPF) is a public establishment made up of 11 regional delegations – the Regional Forest Property Centers (CRPF) – and a Research Development Innovation department:
the Institute for Forest Development (IDF). Placed under the supervision of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food, its main missions are as follows:
- guide the management of private forests: it approves the sustainable management documents, which provide for the management of a property over 10 to 20 years. Any owner of more than 25 ha must have a simple approved management plan;
- advise and train: it carries out studies and experiments on the forest, then popularizes forestry methods with owners by training and informing them;
- consolidate private property: As the private forest is very fragmented, the CNPF brings together the owners to carry out service projects, mobilize timber, group together logging sites, pool the costs of forestry work, etc.
The 2017-2021 objective contract forms an ambitious project built around two major strengths of the CNPF:
- on the one hand its territorial animation capacity for the setting sustainable management new hectares of forest, and the long-term maintenance of private forests that are already sustainably managed,
- on the other hand his recognized competence in forestry RDI (Research-Development-Innovation), particularly in the face of the major challenge of climate change.