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Peaty areas and wetlands play a very important role in maintaining biodiversity, regulating the soil’s water regime, providing habitats for animals and enhancing an area’s landscape value. On the Saint-Hubert Plateau many of these habitats have been greatly altered by the digging of drainage networks that were required for forestry (primarily spruce plantations) but upset the water regime on which peat bogs depend. The disturbance and draining of these fragile soils facilitated the subsequent spread of a particularly invasive plant species, purple moor grass.
So, the LIFE-Tourbières (peatlands) Project aims to restore these sites, which are scattered around the plateau, by felling the spruce trees and grinding up stumps, filling the drains, flooding certain areas and turning sheep out on other areas to control the spread of purple moor grass better.

More info: LIFE project website
Produced by: Unité de Gestion Cynégétique du Massif Forestier
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Language: French

 

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rehabilitation, LIFE, wetlands, humid

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