Mountain land restoration - Haute Savoie

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.

Access to the digitized documents

This photographic collection, kept in the archives of the Inrae centre in Grenoble, comes from the École nationale des eaux et forêts (ENEF) in Nancy, which became an internal school of AgroParisTech in 2007.

This corpus of approximately 2,000 photographs was mainly used for instruction purposes. The origin of the transfer from Nancy to Grenoble remains unclear, but it was probably linked to professional mobility.

The photos of the main glacier fronts of the Mont Blanc massif make up a large part of this collection. It also includes photos related to RTM (Restauration des Terrains en Montagne = mountain land restoration) taken by forest service officers during their tours.

At the end of 2023, the photos from the RTM collection of Haute Savoie held in the national archives will also be put online.

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    Avalanche in the Barral valley; photo by Plagnat; 30 January 1938.
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