Soberanía y defensa de la riqueza forestal en la frontera vasconavarra con Francia durante el siglo XVIII.

The aim of this research is to analyse the consolidation process of Spanish Monarchy's authority and sovereignty over the Basque and Navarrese timber reserves, and, thus, over the Pyrenean Western borderline, in order to guarantee the Spanish Royal Navy's supply. This process was completed at the end of the eighteenth century, when, on the one hand, during the British-Spanish War, the Spanish Monarchy was forced to intensively resort to the Pyrenean timber reserves, and, on the other hand, to secure a bigger control over the French frontiers, bearing in mind the revolutionary period. Although, until this time, the conflicts, around the pasture rights, were solved by the local communities, since the end of the eighteenth century, Spanish and French Monarchies were compelled to intervene and, through the cartography, to accurately define their limits. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]