Education

56-page ex­cur­sion guide from Les Bre­nets to Saint-Ur­sanne in A6 for­mat, first edi­tion 2017 and se­cond edi­tion 2025. Avai­lable in french or ger­man.

A bor­der ri­ver, but above all a link bet­ween the French Ju­ra and the Swiss Ju­ra, the Doubs flows through a val­ley that is at times pea­ce­ful, at times wild. From Les Bre­nets to Saint-Ur­sanne, the ri­ver winds its way bet­ween steep hil­l­sides and cliffs. A ha­ven of tran­qui­li­ty, a hiker’s pa­ra­dise, the Doubs can be dis­co­ve­red in all sea­sons, each of­fe­ring a dif­ferent at­mos­phere. This guide pre­sents four ex­cur­sions that show­case the most re­mar­kable fea­tures of this cap­ti­va­ting ri­ver. From the for­ma­tion of the land­scape to the lo­cal wild­life, and in­clu­ding des­crip­tions of geo­lo­gi­cal fea­tures and cha­rac­te­ris­tic na­tu­ral sites such as al­lu­vial zones, the guide al­so paints a pic­ture of what the Doubs was like cen­tu­ries ago: a ma­jor in­dus­trial hub with its mil­ls, saw­mil­ls, and glass­works.

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36-page guide in A6 for­mat, first edi­tion in 2017. Avai­lable in french or ger­man.

Bet­ween the St-Imier val­ley and the town of Biel, the Reu­che­nette wa­ter gap and the Tau­ben­loch gorges form spec­ta­cu­lar cuts car­ved out by the Suze ri­ver. With ori­gi­nal illus­tra­tions and ac­ces­sible texts, this guide in­vites rea­ders to dis­co­ver va­rious as­pects – not al­ways vi­sible at first glance – re­la­ted to the land­scape or hu­man ac­ti­vi­ty:

• How were the gorges for­med ?
• What types of rock are found there?
• Where are the most sur­pri­sing rock for­ma­tions ?
• How do we ma­nu­fac­ture the ce­ment in the wa­ter gap ?
• Where does the Suze wa­ter come from ?
• What are the risks of the ri­ver floo­ding ?
• And ma­ny more in­for­ma­tions ...

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56-page guide in A6 for­mat, first edi­tion 2015. Avai­lable on­ly in french.

A ma­jor link bet­ween the Ju­ra Moun­tains and the Swiss Pla­teau, the Orbe is one of the most unique and in­ter­es­ting ri­vers. Fol­lo­wing its course al­lows you to dis­co­ver an ex­cep­tio­nal va­rie­ty of land­scapes. At first mean­de­ring, the ri­ver winds its way through marshes be­fore di­sap­pea­ring in­to lakes and be­gin­ning a mys­te­rious un­der­ground jour­ney... Gu­shing out of the moun­tain near Val­lorbe, it reap­pears in day­light, slip­ping in­to a wild gorge and fi­nal­ly cal­ming down as it reaches the plain.

The guide of­fers four ex­cur­sions de­si­gned to help vi­si­tors learn more about this ri­ver and its re­gion, with ex­pla­na­tions ac­ces­sible to all and ori­gi­nal dia­grams. How do the mys­te­rious fun­nels through which wa­ter di­sap­pears un­der­ground work? Why did large lakes form in the Val­lée de Joux? How did wa­ter shape the Val­lorbe val­ley? How do hu­mans make the best use of the river's ener­gy? These are just some of the ques­tions ans­we­red in this guide.

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48-page guide in A6 for­mat, ac­com­pa­nied by a co­lour fold-out map, for­mat 42 x 59 cm, first edi­tion 2014. Avai­lable on­ly in french.

This guide of­fers a se­ries of keys to bet­ter un­ders­tan­ding the land­scape of the Locle val­ley. With nu­me­rous ori­gi­nal illus­tra­tions, it al­lows rea­ders and hi­kers to dis­co­ver the hid­den as­pects of the town, to un­ders­tand the long pro­cesses that im­per­cep­ti­bly change its sur­roun­ding land­scape, and why Le Locle is for­tu­nate to have nu­me­rous springs, a si­tua­tion en­vied by other towns in the Ju­ra re­gion. This bro­chure can be read at home or while un­der­ta­king one of the three sug­ges­ted ex­cur­sions (two on foot, one by bi­cycle).

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52-page guide in A6 for­mat, first edi­tion 2011 and se­cond edi­tion 2025. Avai­lable in french or ger­man.

Nest­led at the foot of Creux du Van, the Areuse gorges connect Val-de-Tra­vers to the Swiss Pla­teau. You can sim­ply stroll along the ma­ny paths that criss-cross them to en­joy the ma­gni­ficent land­scapes that un­fold be­fore your eyes, but the mean­de­ring ri­ver, its banks and the cliffs that sur­round it conceal a his­to­ry and so­me­times se­crets about the mar­riage of rock and wa­ter.

Si­mi­lar­ly, hy­droe­lec­tric ins­tal­la­tions de­mons­trate hu­man in­ge­nui­ty in sus­tai­na­bly ex­ploi­ting the re­sources of­fe­red by these gorges. Through two com­ple­men­ta­ry ex­cur­sions lin­king Noi­raigue to Bou­dry, this guide pro­vides a bet­ter un­ders­tan­ding of the mor­pho­lo­gy of the land­scape, how wa­ter flows on the sur­face and un­der­ground, and fi­nal­ly, the his­to­ry of how this wa­ter is cap­tu­red to sup­ply a large part of the can­ton of Neu­châ­tel.

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48-page guide in A6 for­mat, first edi­tion 2008 and se­cond edi­tion 2025. Avai­lable on­ly in french.

Tur­ning on a tap in La Chaux-de-Fonds is a simple ac­tion that we ra­re­ly give a se­cond thought to. And yet, it took a great deal of de­ter­mi­na­tion and in­sight to make it pos­sible! There is no wa­ter in the land­scape sur­roun­ding the town, which is per­ched at an al­ti­tude of 1,000 metres. The pre­cious li­quid the­re­fore has to be sour­ced el­sew­here, i.e. far away and much lo­wer down. This short guide ex­plores the his­to­ry of wa­ter in this watch­ma­king town and high­lights the fact that, even here, the sup­ply of drin­king wa­ter can­not be ta­ken for gran­ted.

An ex­cur­sion to the Areuse Gorges and ano­ther bet­ween the ci­ty and the Doubs com­plete six chap­ters de­vo­ted to geo­lo­gy, hy­dro­lo­gy, his­to­ry, wa­ter col­lec­tion, dis­tri­bu­tion and pu­ri­fi­ca­tion be­fore it is re­lea­sed back in­to the en­vi­ron­ment.

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