Agricultural landscape

Val-de-Charmey offers a varied landscape with alternating hay meadows, pastures, forests, alpine pastures, wooded areas and residential areas. The panorama highlights a mosaic landscape in successive levels, from the valley bottoms where buildings dominate, to the high-altitude meadows nestling in the wooded areas. The light areas of hay meadows and, to a lesser extent, pastures, help to distribute the light between the dark areas of forest and built-up areas. Pastoral farming, which has been practised for centuries in the Jogne region, is primarily responsible for creating and maintaining this landscape. An ecological network links agricultural areas that are favourable to biodiversity with woodland structures and other refuges for wildlife. The Jogne network, which brings together around thirty farmers, was created in 2008 with the help of the Park. Its members have undertaken to apply measures to promote biodiversity on their plots. An assessment of these measures is carried out every eight years.

In the distance, in the photo below, from left to right, you can see the limestone pre-Alps with their characteristic Gruyère peaks: Dents vertes, Hochmatt, Dent de Broc, Moléson and Vanil des Cours. The intersection of the Jogne valley, the Javro valley and the Motélon valley is clearly visible from the Montminard mountain pasture.