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Faced with climate change, Nancy’s green lung is increasing its shock treatments. Example in this former domain of the Dukes of Lorraine.
By Audrey Emery
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Lhe first year, Christophe Colette did not worry. But the drought returned, one summer, then two… “We have been suffering it now since 2018”, observes the director of the ONF of Meurthe-et-Moselle. The rains of summer 2021 will have just allowed the oaks to replenish their water stocks without making them grow. For the uninitiated walker, nothing seems to have changed: at the gates of Laxou and Vandoeuvre, the Hague forest still wears its green habit of some 11,000 hectares with its beeches, sessile and pedunculate oaks, maples, hornbeams and its ash trees… But at the tops of large trees or on young plants that are too exposed to the sun, the leaves have turned brown prematurely. The beech, which has reigned here for centuries, is running out of steam. Some will survive…
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