#TECT2611959ACreation of the Chamalière and Peyre Ourse Strict Biological Reserve
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This order creates a 147.49-hectare strict biological reserve in the Murat state forest, across Albepierre-Bredons and Laveissière in Cantal. The reserve covers two forest areas, Chamalière and Peyre Ourse, and is meant to let forest and open-land ecosystems evolve naturally while protecting biodiversity and supporting scientific study. Forestry operations and human interventions that could alter natural habitats are banned, with limited exceptions for safety, signage, path management, fire prevention, legal brush clearing, natural risk protection, non-native species removal, and hunting to control ungulate populations. Forest managers, local authorities, hunters, researchers, and visitors will need to follow the reserve’s 2023-2042 management plan and the activity restrictions set for the site.
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Key Changes
- Creates the Chamalière and Peyre Ourse strict biological reserve covering 147.49 hectares in the Murat state forest.
- Approves the reserve’s first management plan for the 2023-2042 period.
- Bans forestry operations and habitat-altering interventions, with narrow exceptions for safety, fire prevention, legal duties, species control, and regulated hunting.
Obligations
What this law requires
Manage the Chamalière and Peyre Ourse strict biological reserve areas in the Murat state forest in accordance with the approved 2023-2042 management plan.
Do not carry out forestry exploitation within the strict biological reserve.
Do not carry out human interventions within the reserve that could modify the composition, structure, or functioning of natural habitats, except for actions expressly allowed under the reserve management plan.
When trees are cut for permitted safety, maintenance, signage, public information, or path-related works, leave the cut wood products within the reserve unless directional felling is impossible.
Ungulate population regulation by hunting may only be carried out to prevent ecosystem imbalance, and the conditions for this regulation must be set by the Office national des forêts.