F-4.1 - Forest Act

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24.10. The Minister may designate forest areas as biological refuges in order to protect certain mature or overmature forests that are representative of Québec’s forest heritage and to maintain the biological diversity of those forests.
To that end, the Minister shall establish and define the boundaries of biological refuges on all or part of the forest lands of the domain of the State and manage the biological refuges in such a way as to ensure their continued protection.
The biological refuges are entered in the land use plan provided for in the Act respecting the lands in the domain of the State (chapter T-8.1).
2007, c. 39, s. 3.