IT A ALWAYS AN OWNER SOME IS THE PLACE THERE!

The some place that you decided to prospect, wood, forest, fields, there exists an owner.

Besides some rare exceptions (the commune on which a ground is does not find the owner where well this one did not pay its taxes any more since many years... after 30 years last without this owner not giving sign of life, the good belongs theoretically to the commune or the state). Apart from this precise case, a wood or a forest always belongs to somebody. Either it authorizes you to cross his property (right-of-way free if there are no fences) or it does not authorize you there (it is enclosed!). As regards the prospection, it is necessary to ask the authorization to the owner of the places. They is least things! With regard to the forests, they can be Domaniales (belong to the State) it is then the National office of the Forests which is the representative of the State. The requests for authorization are to be sent to the O.N.F. A wood can be Départemental (belongs at the Department) or regional (it is necessary to require the authorization of the general consulting or other authority representing owner (sometimes still the O.N.F). With regard to the cultivated wood private or fields, it is easy to find the owner of it, even Sunday when the offices of the land register are closed, it is enough to ask the farm nearest! The farmers know each other all between them. Also take care that the person who gives you the authorization is well it or the owner, often people whom one meets in the fields are only employed and cannot authorize you.

In the event of litigation... one never knows, you would have great difficulty to prove that search was well authorized, the employee having in general a short and failing memory! Show and share your discoveries with the owner and are in good terms with those which accomodate you, you will gain there consideration and a certain recognition.