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A helmeted pilot steadies the control bar of an ultralight aircraft while soaring above the dense maritime pine forest that forms a protective barrier between the Atlantic Ocean and the sheltered waters of Bassin d'Arcachon. This strategic forest, established through an ambitious planting program initiated by engineer Nicolas Brémontier in 1800, represents one of history's most successful ecological engineering projects, stabilizing previously mobile coastal dunes while creating a thriving ecosystem that now protects the basin's delicate wetlands from coastal erosion and buffers the effects of Atlantic storms.
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A helmeted pilot steadies the control bar of an ultralight aircraft while soaring above the dense maritime pine forest that forms a protective barrier between the Atlantic Ocean and the sheltered waters of Bassin d'Arcachon. This strategic forest, established through an ambitious planting program initiated by engineer Nicolas Brémontier in 1800, represents one of history's most successful ecological engineering projects, stabilizing previously mobile coastal dunes while creating a thriving ecosystem that now protects the basin's delicate wetlands from coastal erosion and buffers the effects of Atlantic storms.