Mountain land restoration - Alpes-Maritimes

The map provides access to the geolocated pictures of this collection, with a navigation by municipality. For each municipality, you will find all the photographs taken in that particular area.

It is a selection of photographs taken in the department that is presented here. The Archives Nationales hold "merely" 1,390 photographs from a much larger collection held by the departmental archives of the Alpes-Maritimes

The collection is organised by forest conservation area around a river, a stream or main torrent, defined by the forest services, and then by series (equivalent to a municipality, a forest or a secondary branch of the main torrent) in alphabetical order within an area.

The title of the photograph generally contains a full description of the view.

 

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  • Pépinière de reboisement avec rigoles d’irrigation, torrent de Sainte Marthe, Embrun, Hautes Alpes

    Live brush check dams, grass seeding and reforestation, indirect protection

    Since the 1860s, government departments have been working to secure natural and human habitats threatened by erosion and mountain torrents. Civil engineering and environemental engineering techniques are used to stabilise banks and reduce the slope of torrents.

     

  • glacier Tré-la-Tête, the mountain packing, 1930
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    When the scientist gets high

    Agate presents its current favorite.
    Within our collections, numerous illustrations or photographs deserve to be exhibited for their aesthetic quality or originality. Today, we are climbing the Tré-la-tête glacier.