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 objectives of protection and development of the resources of the forested environment (OPMV) proposed for the general plans of forest management 2005-2010

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The public consultations relative to the objectives of protection and development of the resources of the forested environment carried on a set of seven objectives beforehand established in groups of discussion.

During the public consultations which were held in 2003, we collected 33 memories, among which four with the autochtonous communities. Also, the regional councils of development held public meetings in 13 respective regions.

The question of the regional peculiarities redoes surface again. The objectives subjected to the public consultations remain relatively technical and we underline the lack of knowledge on the stakes social and economic relative to these objectives.

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 )