Max and Sons
Max and Sons – Public Reforestation Company is proudly involved into forestry management for future generations. We establish and reinforce natural capital and biodiversity by developing and managing forests and forest planting. We manage these in a commercial and sustainable way that ensure a stable rate of timber production.
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About Us
Forests take time. Max & Sons aims to plant and manage forests for all future generations. We care about creating family legacy. We protect and nurture our natural capital so our children grandchildren may benefit. This is necessary because we need to save our planet and we need the forest resources in order to build sustainably in the future.
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Our services
We focus our efforts on capturing carbon with newly planted forests. In our view, this should always be done by continuous measurements of carbon. In addition, we offer consultancy and management services to private forest owners. We create and evaluate management plans and monitor practical implementations. To third parties, we offer measurements of carbon stocks and tree inventories. We establish, implement, monitor, and execute forest management plans, including cost and yield projections.
Sustainable commercial forest management in Vosges, France
Logging roads in Vosges, France
Continuous forest cover: Shelterwood system, Pines on the left side of the hill. (Vosges, France)
High-quality timber production in Lorraine, France
NP de Forets; (semi-) natural forests in Bourgogne, France
Our mission is to plant new forests and manage existing forests and tree stands in a sustainable way.
Our underlying core principles in reforestation and sustainable forest management are:
Proper tree selection
Optimal use of natural regeneration
Trees group planting
Maintaining continuous forest cover
Increasing soil quality and fertility
Optimizing forest productivity
In a changing climate, the priority in tree selection is to select trees that will fit local environmental conditions now and in the future. To do this we select trees that will be able to cope with future climates, are adapted to expected soil conditions, and will be able to withstand extreme weather conditions. Selected trees shall match expected results in environmental development and biodiversity, carbon sequestration, timber production, and any other stated needs.
In our selections, we prefer species that may grow spontaneously on lands scheduled for transformation. In benefiting from natural regeneration principles to the best of our abilities, we decrease planting and labor costs and labor and deliver forest stands that are more stable and resilient.
Planting new stands in tree groups leaves room for natural regeneration. Tree groups are homogenous in age and tree species. In our typical forest management plans, they span a maximum of three times the expected height (50 to 100 metres). Combining ages and species in a feasible set-up, aimed at harvesting efficiency, our forests grow up to be diverse, stable and resilient. In projects involving nature conservation, it allows for accounting what trees are left untouched during harvest towards all our nature conservation partners.
Complete forest clearances damage our environment more then necessary and results in peak income and processing. We spread harvests for stable income and harvesting capacity utilization, ensuring stable land value developments. Tending to the needs of our clients, we advise on spreading harvests over time and space.
Mostly at the event of tree harvesting, forest soils risk erosion and corresponding losses of nutrients and carbon. We combat soil disturbance by maintaining continuous forest cover, using logging roads and reduced flail mulching. In our management plans, we aim to increase the number of plants that have good quality leaves for increased soil fertility and stabilizing natural carbon sequestration in forest soils.
We further increase soil fertility by well-timed management interventions. We continuously invest in new monitoring technology, including drones, to increase our management capabilities, improve reporting and forecasting precision and reduce intervention costs. This also enables us to improve timber quality and growth rates.