page_title: Livradois-Forez Regional Natural Park
section_title: History and creation of the park
hierarchical_section_title: Livradois-Forez Regional Natural Park / History and creation of the park
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Villages de val de Durolle, PNR Livradois-Forez, Puy de Dôme, depuis les Margerides, entre Thiers et Chabreloche. C'est un secteur industrialisé de longue date, autrefois par la présence de papeteries et nombreux ateliers de coutellerie. Aujourd'hui, des PME profitent de la desserte assurée par l'A89.
context_page_description: Livradois-Forez Regional Natural Park is a regional natural park located on three French department: Puy-de-Dôme, Haute-Loire and Loire. The two biggest urban areas are Thiers and Ambert. Courpière, Billom and Vic-le-Comte have a secondary place in the territory.
context_section_description: Under the presidence of Maurice Adevah-Pœuf, Thier's mayor and deputy of Puy-de-Dôme, an association for the creation of the Livradois-Forez Regional Natural Park is established in April 1982 at the suggestion of seventeen elected reunited 29 November 1981 in Brugeron.
  In 1984 is created the management mixed union of the Livradois-Forez Park.
  The environment ministry assigned its label in December 1985.
  The Livradois-Forez Regional Natural Park was created on 4 February 1986 by deliberation of the Auvergne regional council.
  Its constitutive charter was re-examined two times, so the label was assigned again in 1998 ; an extension decree of the Regional Natural Park for the next twelve years was published in Journal Officiel (French government website) on 27 July 2011. On the occasion of this latest review, five municipalities of Loire's department joined for the first time the park : Noirétable, La Chamba, La Chambonie, Jeansagnière et Lérigneux.
  Its headquarters, originally in Thiers, is now located in the municipality named Saint-Gervais-sous-Meymont.
caption: Villages of the Durolle valley
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