The rocks of Chaveroche

3 points of interest

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  Peat bog

  Peat bog and heath

  On the Puy Bessergue, a gap between the coniferous trees reveals a landscape of puys, reforested by man, and pockets of peat. To the northwest, the Naucodie peat bog is a remarkable area and protected under Natura 2000; bordered by callune and heather moors, it is a beautiful hunting area for the largest bird of prey in the region, the short-toed snake eagle and its 1.80 m wingspan.

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  Forestry

  Coniferous forest

  Spruce, Douglas fir or even Larch cover the puys of the Limousin mountain. The history of forestry in Corrèze is relatively recent and developed mainly in the 1950s with the reforestation policy instigated by the National Forest Fund. Essentially more than 90% private, the forest is a rapidly growing sector of activity that occupies second place in terms of employment in the department.

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  Geological interest

  The rocks of Chaveroche

  How did the stone mastodons appear? In a few tens of millions of years, the earth from this puy was swept away by wind and rain, letting the granite mother rock appear on the surface. Geometric cracks (diaclases), have formed and the granite blocks, under the action of frost, have cracked and broken. Water and wind continued this long erosion work on the periphery of each monolith to give outcrops these rounded shapes.