Les difficiles relations entre recherche et pratique forestières, par-dessus la barrière des langues | The Difficult Correlation Between Forest Research and Forest Practice With a Language Barrier to Cross

Since 1990, the launching of the WSL branch station Antenne romande has been accompanied by a commission – the Comac– which represents the French speaking cantons and the private forestry offices. In 1993, it conducted an evaluation which gave evidence of the positive impact AR-WSL had among the target groups. However, Comac also pointed out that the task of WSL does not correspond with the expectations of the practitioners. The new concept of WSL offers good chances for innovative collaboration. Yet, while forest services are being reorganised, forest research is still lacking progress in French speaking Switzerland and the expectations of the eighties still remain.