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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Quebec

The distribution according to the mode of tenure

91 % of lands in Quebec are of public tenure and provincial jurisdiction. Another 8 % is of private tenure.

Such as we can see it in the lower graph, the lands of private tenure are in stronger concentration in regions-centres and in zone of the clayey plains convenient to the agriculture.

Source of datas : Ressources et industries forestières - Ministère des Ressources naturelles et de la Faune, édition 2009