At the end of February, our agents have your Christmas trees collected at the beginning of the year on the dune of the Ocean. You have sometimes come from afar to drop off your conifer at our collection point in La Barre. Nearly 1,100 trees were collected in this way. They now take place on the Ocean dune to protect it from erosion.
A natural, collaborative protection, implemented for the first time on the Angloy coast. To carry out this experiment, our teams took advice from the National Forestry Office (ONF) by going to Capbreton. The agents deploy a technique aimed at positioning the conifers directly on the sand, starting from the top of the dune. One face is stripped of its branches beforehand. Then, on the ground, tangled, tight, the fir trees contribute to the consolidation of the dune cord, by trapping the sand. The small branches, thus cut, also constitute a natural sub-layer, which will decompose into humus.
This operation is part of the actions of the active, gentle fight against coastal erosion, carried out by the City. The conifers were positioned in a perimeter equipped with ganivelles, which themselves aim to retain the sand. Signs inform you of this long-term experiment. “Over the months the softwoods will gradually disappear under the sand, then dune vegetation should reappear”, underlines Cédric Crouzille, municipal councilor in charge of coastal protection and beach maintenance, specifying: “we will follow the evolution over the weeks, then a report will be drawn up in the fall to consider extending this experiment to other dunes”.
On video, thank you to the team of city agents present that day: Patrick, Christophe, Daniel, Richard.
