Woëvre

The Woëvre is a natural area of the North-East of France, located in Lorraine, mainly in the department of Meuse and Meurthe-et-Moselle.

It extends on Right Bank from the Meuse since the valley from the Chiers in North, to the town of Neufchâteau in Sud.
Its Western blank skirts the Meuse, its blank East overflows in Meurthe-et-Moselle. It includes the Lac of Madine and the part Western of the Regional natural park of Lorraine.

Woëvre is, with the Côtes of the Moselle, one of the sectors the least sprinkled by the rains in Lorraine. But its hydrographic network is as for him very important and feeds the Lac of Madine. Part of the network, mainly towards Étain was, as of the Moyen-âge carved using earth embankments to gradually form ponds exploited for the Pisciculture. These ponds are today refuges for many species of birds in particular migrateurs.
The particularly wet ground of the area consists of layer S Aquifère S (sandstone, Calcaire) separated by impermeable layers from Argile callovien.
This part of not very wooded Lorraine east. One finds there in particular oaks stalks whose rooting is rather surface, which is an important asset on a wet ground.

Certain zones of Woëvre are inventoried like natural zones of ecological, faunistic and floristic interest (ZNIEFF). A majority of these spaces were repurchased in 1996 by the Conservatoire of the Lorraine sites (CSL). This association created in 1984 fights for the safeguard of significant spaces in Lorraine.

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