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

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

    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.

  • Dams and weirs, indirect protection through civil engineering
    Repaired Dam number 2. The artificial silting is almost complete. The Decauville track is laid on the crest. Parlier 1931
    Natural Risks

    Dams and weirs, indirect protection through civil engineering

    Since the 1860s, government departments have been working to secure natural and human habitats threatened by erosion and mountain torrents. Civil engineering techniques are deployed to stabilise torrent beds and consolidate the banks.