2e Poste de guet, Combe de Feynier
The place
2nd Watchpost, Combe de Feynier in the Vercors Regional Nature Park, Villard-de-Lans/Corrençon-en-Vercors area (Isère/Drôme border, France), at 1042 m altitude, on the Vercors plateau. Continuous France Vercors cluster (batches 220-337). ONF (French National Forestry Office) forest watchpost (2 posts on the plateau for summer-autumn fire surveillance), an area with Vercors beech-fir forest and the Hauts-Plateaux du Vercors Nature Reserve (17,000 ha, the largest forest nature reserve in France) and the Vercors Resistance (June-July 1944, 4000 maquisards crushed, Ferdinand Miksche, 700 dead, massacres at Vassieux-en-Vercors, researchers' cemetery).
The setting
Vercors Regional Nature Park Villard-de-Lans/Corrençon Isère/Drôme France 1042 m plateau, continuous cluster batches 220-337, ONF watchpost 2 summer-autumn fire surveillance, beech-fir forest Hauts-Plateaux Nature Reserve 17,000 ha largest forest reserve in France, Resistance June-July 1944 4000 maquisards Miksche 700 dead Vassieux.
