Grove

Varied definitions

The grove indicates still today any surface of a Forêt where the majority of the Arbre S.A. reached (for the tree grower) a stage of maturity corresponding to their ideal age of exploitability, and thus where they are able to reproduce.

The Littré of 1872 precise: “ a forty year old wood names grove on coppice; between forty and sixty, demi-futaie; between sixty and a hundred and twenty, young mature standing timber; from one hundred twenty to two hundreds, mature standing timber; above two hundred years, mature standing timber on the return.

Others say: young grove, since 80 years up to 120; mature standing timber since this age until the deterioration which one indicates by the word of mature standing timber ”.

Littré also specifies that it is about “Wood come by seed. ” and that one can speak about “Grove of bits” to describe “the Semis which one lets grow in grove” , and of “ Futaie on stock” to describe “the wood or the coppice which pushes back stocks” .

Etymology

The word grove comes from was which indicates the tree trunk, and not of insane , fouteau (the beech). As old French, the word was also written “fustoies” and “Fustayes” .

Types of groves

In opposition to the Coppice, one usually distinguishes:

the regular grove (trees of the same age group), possibly monospecific (only one gasoline of tree), generally managed by cycles of close-cropped cuts;
the irregular grove (several age groups);
the irregular, heterogeneous and mixed grove (containing different species with all the age groups, it is the objective of the forestry school “ Prosilva ”, for a management “ in bouquets ” or “ step by step ”)
the mixture grove-coppice (Taillis under grove)

Normally, in a gardened grove, all the age groups of trees are represented, because the selective demolition of the trees only relates to some ripe subjects.

See too

Mode of grove (forestry approach)

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