Bilan des feux de forêt dans la wilaya de Khenchela Analyse de l’année 2017
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2018-06
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Université Abbes Laghrour -Khenchela-
Abstract
In Algeria, the forest heritage is the object of multiple attacks and aggressions, of
which mainly forest fires. In the three main forests of the city of khenchela namely beni
imloul, ouled yagoub, and beni oudjana, this phenomenon seems to gain in the year
importance by year and devastation several thousands of hectares of wooded surfaces. The
objective of our work is to collect the data of forest fires in the form of monthly assessments
over one 33 years period (1985-2017), then to analyze forest fires during the year 2017 in the
area of khenchela our analysis showed that the year 2012 is regarded as being catastrophic for
the forest of khenchela with 15719 ha of burnt surface. During the year 2017, the main forestsmost concerned with the first are the solid mass of ouled yacoub and beni oudjana where
238.1045 hectares were devastated by fires. During the month of july and august, 53 starting
points of fire were recorded. The vegetable formations most touched by fire are the Esparto
with 94% of the surface of, Non-forest then pinushalepensis with 99.39% of the surface
species