come autumn, local residents can help themselves to wood

In La-Teste-de-Buch (Gironde), the wood is self-service, Thursday, October 6. A godsend, in the midst of an energy crisis. Equipped with their chainsaw, the inhabitants of the sector did not hesitate to come and help themselves. One of them explains that he will use this wood “to warm up this winter“. The La-Teste-de-Buch forest was ravaged by a violent fire during the summer. 7,000 hectares were destroyed.

To prevent the fire from devouring the landscape further, the authorities had cut down trees, so that the flames had nothing left to burn. It is this wood that is made available today. A local resident is delighted that the wood has already been cut: traditionally, it is the inhabitants who come themselves to cut wood in the forest. This time, however, the passage is forbidden to them. The only rule for the inhabitants: do not resell this wood.