Productivité et exploitabilité des forêts du canton de Vaud: vers plus de réalisme | Productivity and levels of exploitation of the forests in canton Vaud: a step towards more realism
The present debate concerning the sustainable management of natural resources, accentuated by a climate change already well attested but the effects of which are still largely uncertain, is reviving interest in previsions of productivity and possible exploitation of the forests. The repetition of inventories, and the interpretation of these taking into account the particularities of each station, do make it possible to construct coherent scenarios of future development, despite the considerable age of the available reference models. A moderate reaction to the observed ageing and weakening of the forests in canton Vaud should be to support the continuation of the strategy of constant intensification of exploitation followed throughout the twentieth century, a strategy which is, moreover, indispensable for the strengthening ofthe multifunctional use of woodlands.