The ecosystem-based management of boreal forest in Quebec

(june 2010)

The ecosystem-based management concept is relatively recent in Quebec. Its gradual setting-up joins in the renewal of the forest practices to answer more adequately the ecological concerns inherent to the concept of sustainable forest development, which contains legal fondations in the law on forests.

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The certification of the forest surfaces in Canada

(march 2010)

The certification of the forest surfaces appears as a voluntary and transparent process to establish a frame of management in compliance with the principles of sustainable development of forests. The forest certification aims at guaranteeing that forests are managed in the respect for the on a local scale regional and national values.

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Before 2008

The management of the Quebecois public forest

Portail Québec
Coulombe committee

The Coulombe committee remains this day one of the inquiry committees on the forest of the most mediatized. The public consultations gave place to the deposit of 300 reports distributed in each of the administrative regions of Quebec. 66 of these memories result from bodies with multiregional and national reach. In Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean only, we count 31 memories. In a general way, the shape and the content vary largely. Certain reports rest on elaborated studies and contain several dozens pages, whereas the others present only a photocopy of a letter or print screen of a Web site.

The update of the forested regime (at the end of the years " 1990 ")
The project of policy of consultation on the orientations of Quebec in management and of development of the forest environment (in November, 2001)
The objectives of protection and development of the resources of the forested environment (OPMV) proposed for the general plans of forest management (PGAF 2005-2010) ( 2003 )
The demarcation of the units of forested organization and the north limit of commercial wooden attributions (spring, 2002)
The maximisation of the economic consequences of the exploitation of natural resources in regions resources (winter, 2003))
The new approach of affectation of the public territory (in October, 2003)
The management of the public forest in Quebec ( 2004 )