From May to early July, our team, as well as around twenty trained volunteers, are on the ground to check the good recovery as well as the sanitary state of the 3,700 trees that were planted during the winter 2021-2022.
The first observations are encouraging, the majority of the plants having well recovered .
However, we will remain attentive to the blister rust that we have observed on certain laricio pine. This fungus can completely dry out young plants in certain station conditions: wet bottoms, abundance of host plants, too tight stands… which is, fortunately, not the case in our plots.
Starting in the fall, a monitoring campaign for all the trees planted since 2018 will be initiated.
More than 72,000 trees will therefore be subject to rigorous scientific monitoring.