Wood potential: exploitable forest areas — Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes — 2022

As part of the assessment of renewable energy potential, the areas of exploitable forests have been characterised for the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. The assessment of this potential is based on a methodology developed by Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Énergie Environnement (AURA-EE) provided here in addition to the GIS data. First, the forest areas where logging is possible are identified and then, in a second step, the areas of potential usable forests are expressed at different spatial scales with several possible filters. Note that the method does not take into account the existing: already harvested forests are counted in exploitable forests. In addition, the methodology presented here is scalable and can be improved in the future.