#TECT2611957AFrance Creates the Bannes-Ravines Strict Biological Reserve in the Vosges
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The order creates a 313.25-hectare strict biological reserve in the state forests of Bannes and Val-de-Senones in the Vosges. The area is set aside to let mountain forest ecosystems develop naturally, protect biodiversity, and support scientific knowledge. Forest harvesting and human activities that could alter natural habitats are banned, with limited exceptions for trail safety, nearby forest roads, fire-prevention work, removal of non-native species, and controlled hunting of ungulates. Hikers must stay on marked trails, and no new public trails or visitor facilities may be added except basic reserve signage.
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Key Changes
- Creates the 313.25-hectare Bannes-Ravines strict biological reserve in state forests in the Vosges
- Approves the reserve management plan for 2023-2042
- Bans forestry operations and most habitat-altering human interventions, with limited safety, fire-prevention, species-control, and hunting exceptions
Obligations
What this law requires
Do not carry out forest harvesting within the Bannes-Ravines strict biological reserve.
Do not carry out any human intervention in the reserve that could modify the composition, structure, or functioning of natural habitats, except for actions expressly allowed under the reserve management plan.
Limit maintenance or safety works in the reserve to marked hiking trails crossing the reserve and forest roads bordering the reserve, in accordance with the reserve management plan.
Leave cut tree products from authorized maintenance or safety works inside the reserve, unless directional felling is impossible.
Regulate ungulate populations by hunting only to prevent ecosystem imbalance, under conditions set by the National Forestry Office.