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The Priority Ecological Site of the Taillard forest

Under the trees lie the mosses

The Taillard forest has a look of the Vosges about it. Seen from the Tracol pass, the dark green landscape takes on bluish hues on a hot summer’s evening. The wooded space is almost entirely covered in white or silver fir trees. The only things breaking the monotony are a few Beeches and spruces, plantations of spruces, larches and maples.

A productive forest lived by protected species

It is managed in part by the Office of National forests as an irregular forest. This productive forest produces beautiful logs but this does not prevent rare and protected species from living here e.g.: European wild ginger, which forms colonies of shiny creeping kidney shaped leaves and the discrete Boreal Owl, a relic of the last Ice-age. Also common to the site, and much easier to observe is the roe-deer.
 
The ceps (species of wild mushroom) are the delight of mushroom hunters come Autumn!

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