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Mexico's agrarian and forest history established an original forestry land tenure system based upon social property. Mexican National Parks have a unique place in North America where such protected areas have more commonly been under a strict and sole control of Federal authorities. In Mexico, they are places of intense complexity where laws and regulations, economic and social needs are intertwined with policy issues. The Mexican Revolution's legacy ensured tenure rights to agrarian communities that are contested by governments' conservation policies : on the one hand, parks' communities have been excluded from forest uses, while in the same time, logging companies, both private and para-governmental, have been allowed to operate within Protected Areas. This paper intends to retrace the evolution of public policies regarding control and access over forest lands and resources in Mexico, focusing particularly on the Nevado de Toluca National Park. The analysis focuses on how public policies, both at the national and local park levels, have overlapped for about a century. The lack of clear resource management policies that would be readable to members of the local communities – whether legally in relation to their agrarian rights, or illegally in light of the law regarding National Parks – is the cause of major difficulties resonating with wider problems of governance within this protected territory. ; L'histoire agraire et forestière du Mexique a conduit à la configuration d'un régime foncier forestier original fondé en partie sur la propriété collective. Les parcs nationaux mexicains présentent ainsi une situation singulière dans le contexte nord-américain, habitué à un propriétaire foncier unique, l'État fédéral. Ils constituent dans ce pays des entités territoriales d'une complexité législative, réglementaire, économique, politique et sociale considérable. L'héritage de la révolution mexicaine (1910-1917) a confié des droits aux communautés agraires souvent contestés par les politiques de conservation ou en ...