The introduction of an environnemental measure which aims to protect in the corne crake meadows liable to be flooded brings news responsabilities to local farmers : the upkeep of an environnemental sensitive area. The various interpretations of the conservation scheme (bearing in mind the network of relations and influence of individuel farmers) have provoked debates on meadows management norms, which have been called into question by new ornothological and landscape interests. But in conflicts with other agents for environnemental conservation, farmers have gradually come to be respected as experts and mediators, and therein found a new sense of indentity.
