Decimated by fires and bark beetles, the forest of La Teste-de-Buch is finally safe after two years of work and 570,000 tons of wood cut. It will be possible to walk there again from this Monday.
Le Figaro Bordeaux
The forest of La Teste-de-Buch, or at least what remains of it after the devastation caused by the fires of July 2022 and bark beetles, will once again be accessible to the public from this Monday, 1is July. Two years after the closure of the woods, the decision announced by the municipal council hit the mark. “There was a lot of anticipation and it’s a relief. The residents want to go and see because we are opening up a forest that is no longer one.”confides the LR mayor, Patrick Davet (LR).
Goodbye (for at least a few decades) to the hundreds of hectares of pine tree tops: 570,000 tonnes of dead wood had to be cut down to secure the forest. “The tragedy has happened, it has also passed. Fortunately, the forest grows and regenerates. Today, I see green, I discover reliefs of a certain beauty that I did not know. The landscape is less desolate than the scorched earth of two years ago.describes the chosen one with optimism.
Reconstruction of burned cabins
Now secure, the Teste-de-Buch forest is also preparing to be rebuilt. Systematically refused for two years, the building permits for the forty resin workers’ cabins destroyed by the fire will now be validated by the municipality.
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And the latter fully intends to take advantage of this to restore some order among the owners of its 120 sheds, a vestige of a bygone era. “We want reconstructions that are identical to the inventory. We do not want to see huts that are supposed to be 40 square meters, but are actually twice that size.”, thunders the town councilor. Owners will also have to take two new precautions to prevent the tragedy from happening again. Each resin worker’s cabin must now be free of greenery in the 50 meters surrounding it and two maintained paths, which can serve as emergency exits or access for firefighters, must serve them.
