Support for cable logging

The Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur forest covers more than 1.6 million hectares, of which 1.38 million are available for timber production, 56% of which are classified by the IGN as "difficult or very difficult to exploit". As a result, many forests are still underexploited today.

Increasing timber mobilization therefore imperatively requires:

• an improvement in access to forest resources in the forests, particularly for those identified as priorities for mobilization;
• by securing timber transport routes between forest areas and processing sites.

Cable logging is still limited, particularly for reasons of the intrinsic profitability of operations: these must indeed bear the additional costs inherent in the savings in conventional access roads that this alternative logging method allows for otherwise unexploitable terrain.

Cable logging is relevant in cases where conventional logging is not technically and/or economically possible, or in areas with very specific challenges - for example, areas that cannot be served by forest tracks but have high-quality timber, or areas with specific ecological challenges prohibiting access to machinery (peat bogs, terraces).

This scheme aims to:

• mobilize more timber, particularly…