Antoine Bled Poitou-Charentes territorial director at the ONF answers us:
- welcome the public and therefore arrange the spaces so that we can go for a walk in the forest,
- ensure the maintenance of biodiversity,
- produce wood and market it,
- protect the forest massifs against natural risks.
Is cutting and selling wood part of the NFB’s missions?
Yes, of course it’s forest management to renew stands and we also have the mission of supplying the French timber industry.
In Poitou, approximately 40,000 to 45,000 cubic meters are taken each year.
We mainly sell quality oak (mainly to make barrels). For 40%: softwoods to make boxes, flooring, siding.
Last but not least: firewood.
But everything that can be valued is.