The 27,182 acres (11,000 ha) of the Maures public forest shelter immense woodlands of cork oaks and chestnut trees but also areas of dry and sparse maquis. Experimental plantations originating from nearby climatic zones have been set up locally by the National Forests Office following fires. The Maures forest, therefore, also comprises eucalyptus trees from Australia and Douglas firs from California. They were established in the sixties in a protective afforestation of 38 different species intended to form a database for the future of French forests facing global warming.