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 2024, the photos from the RTM collection of Haute Savoie held in the national archives will also be put online.

On the same subject

  • The great man of the mountain land restoration: Eugène de Gayffier
    vue du pavillon des forêts / coupe sur l’axe du pavillon des forêts. Beaux-Arts et merveilles de l'industrie à la fin du XIXe siècle (Exposition universelle de 1889) : grand ouvrage illustré historique, encyclopédique descriptif p.469
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    The great man of the mountain land restoration: Eugène de Gayffier

    The history of the mountain land restoration (abbreviated RTM in French) services has been strongly marked by a few men with assertive characters and remarkable talents: Eugène de Gayffier was the driving force behind the use of photography in RTM not only to document the works, but also to argue for the need to carry them out.

  • The Forester and his tent
    Plantation of hook pine trees, Canton of Chaumasse, Seyne area. Photograph taken by Eugène de Gayffier in 1877, in the context of mountain reforestation and grassing works.
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    The Forester and his tent

    Agate presents its current favorite.
    Here we are in 1877, in the Basses-Alpes, during the great mountain reforestation efforts. Through the lens of Eugène de Gayffier, a solitary tent stands watch over the freshly planted pine trees, a testament to the hard work of foresters striving to bring new life to these fragile lands.