#TECT2611961ACreation of the Jumelles d'Ornes Strict Biological Reserve in Verdun State Forest
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This order creates a 100.18-hectare strict biological reserve in the Verdun state forest, covering selected forest parcels in Ornes and Grémilly in the Meuse department. Its purpose is to let forest ecosystems develop naturally, protect biodiversity, and support scientific knowledge.
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Key Changes
- Creates a 100.18-hectare strict biological reserve in the Verdun state forest
- Approves the reserve’s first management plan for 2025-2044
- Bans forestry operations and most human interventions, with limited exceptions for safety, wildlife control, invasive species removal, fire protection, and legal clearing duties
Obligations
What this law requires
Manage the designated parts of the Verdun state forest within the RBI des Jumelles d'Ornes in accordance with the approved 2025-2044 management plan.
Do not carry out forest exploitation or any other human intervention in the reserve that could modify the composition, structure, or functioning of natural habitats, except for actions expressly allowed by the reserve management plan.
Leave tree-cutting products generated by permitted safety or maintenance works inside the reserve, unless directional felling is impossible.
Limit maintenance or safety works in the reserve to works necessary for the reserve perimeter, public or rights-holder roads and paths, maintained ungulate-regulation rides, reserve signage and public information equipment, or properties adjoining the reserve, in accordance with the management plan.
Regulate ungulate populations by hunting only to avoid ecosystem imbalance, with the regulation methods set by the Office national des forêts.