Simple Coppice

The simple coppice is oldest Régime of coppice set up by the man.

It is a technique of sylviculture consisting of a Recépage (cut) periodic of the stems. Appear then on the Souche S of the rejection S which in their turn will be collected.

The period which separates two cutting back calls the revolution. Its duration is variable according to the productivity, the gasoline, and the type of product which one wishes to obtain: 10 to 40 years.

Gasolines

The simple coppice thus supposes to use forest gasolines which " souche" reject well; , which is the case of the majority of the Feuillus of the moderate areas and some Résineux anecdotic (If, always green Séquoia, Giant sequoia, Cryptomeria japonica).

In France, the most used gasolines are: the Charm, the Oak S natives, the red Oak of America, the Chestnut, the Birch, and more rarely the glutinous Alder, the Ash, the maple S…

It should be noted that the Hêtre is used in coppice only in mountain, because it rejects stock in plain badly (one is unaware of besides why).

Disaffection

The simple coppice, formerly very much used for the production of firewood, with known a disaffection of the rural populations which practiced it (industrial revolution, generalized use of the Fossile fuel, appearance of the domestic Fuel…). In addition, he was scorned by the school of sylviculture " with the française".

Generally, these coppices are the subject of intensive Balivage (when the youth of the stocks, the fertility and the gasoline allowed it), to lead to the Futaie on stock, treatment transitory towards the regular Futaie.

Future

The rarefaction of the Oil and its logic raises prices could replace the simple coppice (and its alternative productivist, the Taillis with short rotation, or TCR) in the center of the forest management of tomorrow, provided that the foresters can be reactive with a potentially important request.

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