Quentin Hovasse walks through his 15-hectare property near Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche, in central France. The forester had recently bought a small parcel of woodland. “I’m using the firs and the oaks to renovate my 19th-century house and barns,” he explains, as he checks the crowns of his trees. It seems this professional arborist knows all of them by heart. “I examine their structure and select those for specific purposes: carpentry, woodworking… and the rest goes into the stove to heat the house.”
As we reach the end of his plot, a large empty field appears. Not long ago this was covered in ...
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