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The law only applies to green garden waste so if it has dried it becomes the sort of stuff you could burn in a log burner anyway. So that's OK.That's quite a severe restriction. My land would disappear under offcuts, brambles and fallen branches if I didn't have bonfires. Are you allowed to run a chipper?
They weren't there when I went around so I had a good look and all they have been burning is cut and dried stuff.
But yes it is a bit severe.
The département does provide places where you can dump it and you are entitled to a free compost bin as well. But it is the carting it there which is a pain.
It has to be said that where we live there is a ton of trees, hence the name "Montagne noire" when you see it from a distance they do look black and that is because they are covered in trees of all sorts. Many times oaks.
So the risk of forest fire is very real.
You would be allowed to run a chipper or a chainsaw or anything you want as long as you stick to the legal times which is not before 8 I think, not after 5 and I think you have to knock off during lunchtime! I'd have to check. The times at weekends are more restrictive still.
What a lot of people do is just go up the road onto a forest track and dump it somewhere in there.