Coppice management

The Raspaille forest is a coppice forest. What you see here are coppice ovens with young twigs. Every 5 to 10 years, old stumps of trees and shrubs are cut to the ground, the roots and the base of the trunk remain. From it come new shoots, which grow until the next felling. If they are also cut down every time, then such a stew becomes wider and wider. You can then tell from the width of such a stew how old it is: the larger, the older. In the past, the wood was used as firewood or to make tools and meadow poles. Do you recognize the tree by the leaves on the shoots?

Departement Omgeving