A-18.1, r. 7 - Regulation respecting standards of forest management for forests in the domain of the State

Section 1 Disposition versions

2012-10-19

1. In this Regulation,

“accommodation centre” means an establishment lodging people on a commercial basis that can accommodate at least 20 persons per day, built on an area forming a single block; (centre d’hébergement)

“all-terrain vehicle trail” means an all-terrain vehicle trail laid out and maintained by any operator, used every year and indicated in the integrated forest development plan; (sentier de véhicule tout terrain)

“archaeological sector” means a place where archaeological sites are concentrated and the surrounding grounds whose geographical characteristics offer an archaeological potential; (secteur archéologique)

“archaeological site” means a place where archaeological property is located that is entered in the cultural heritage register; (site archéologique)

“area frequented by caribou south of the 52nd parallel” means a territory used by a herd of at least 50 caribou for calving, breeding or winter feeding; (aire de fréquentation du caribou au sud du 52e parallèle)

“bear den” means a site used by bears to spend the winter and indicated in the integrated forest development plan; (tanière d’ours)

“bed of a watercourse” means a natural depression in the ground free of vegetation or with a predominance of aquatic plants and characterized by signs of waterflow; (lit d’un cours d’eau)

“block cutting” means cutting with regeneration and soil protection carried out on a given territory so as to preserve, within the limits of the harvest site, a residual forest having the characteristics set out in section 79.2; (coupe en mosaïque)

“boat access route to trapping grounds” means a route comprising rivers, lakes and portage trails used for access to trapping grounds, identified by a native community, used every year and indicated in the integrated forest development plan; (parcours d’accès en embarcation aux terrains de piégeage)

“bridge” means a structure with abutments that crosses an obstacle and without which there would be an interruption in the roadway; (pont)

“bridging” means a rigid removable structure that crosses a watercourse, preventing contact between machinery and the water and the bed of the watercourse, enabling water to flow freely; (pontage)

“burial site” means a place where the body of a deceased person is interred and that is indicated in the integrated forest development plan; (site de sépulture)

“caribou calving area north of the 52nd parallel” means a territory frequented by at least 5 caribou cows per square kilometre during the period from 15 May to 1 July; (aire de mise bas du caribou au nord du 52e parallèle)

“classified heritage site” means a place classified as such under the Cultural Heritage Act (chapter P-9.002); (site patrimonial classé)

“cliff inhabited by a colony of birds” means a cliff, and a strip of land 100 m wide measured backwards from the cliff edge, where there are at least 10 seabird nests per 100 m of frontage; (falaise habitée par une colonie d’oiseaux)

“commercial species” means a tree species listed in Schedule 2; (essence commerciale)

“complementary vacation site” means a site comprising at least 3 vacation lots where the concentration is at least 1 lot per 0.8 ha, developed to complete the development of a grouped vacation site located on the shores of a lake where the biophysical characteristics of the environment no longer make it possible to comply with the installation criteria for a grouped vacation site; (site de villégiature complémentaire)

“concentrated trail network” means a site developed for recreational purposes and comprising various hiking trails at a density of 2.5 km per square kilometre and a strip of land 30 m wide surrounding the site; (réseau dense de randonnées diverses)

“culvert” means a conduit incorporated into the structure of a road, enabling water to flow freely from one side of the road to the other; (ponceau)

“cutting with regeneration and soil protection” means the harvesting of all trees whose usable diameter is at least equal to the diameter determined for each species in the management permit, by taking all the precautions required to avoid damaging the advance growth and by minimizing any disturbance of the soil; (coupe avec protection de la régénération et des sols)

“developed canoe-camping course” means a route comprising rivers, lakes and portage trails along the banks and shores of which there are 2 or more wilderness campgrounds maintained by a government agency, a municipality, the Fédération québécoise de canot-camping or a canoe-camping club recognized by the Fédération, and indicated in the integrated forest development plan; (parcours aménagé de canot-camping)

“developed or semi-developed campground” means an area developed for a minimum of 10 campsites, accessible by roads suitable for motor vehicles and offering electricity or running water service for each campsite or group of not more than 20 campsites, and its service areas such as communal shelters, toilets and parking lots; (camping aménagé ou semi-aménagé)

“dock and boat ramp site” means a public site comprising a dock and a ramp for pleasure boats, developed for outdoor activities, and its service areas such as communal shelters, toilets and parking lots; (site de quai et rampe de mise à l’eau)

“downhill skiing site” means a site comprising a downhill ski centre, and its service areas such as communal shelters, toilets and parking lots; (site de ski alpin)

“dwelling” means any building intended for occupancy by human beings and provided with a drinking water supply system and a waste water disposal system connected to the ground; (habitation)

“ecological or nature interpretation centre” means a site comprising trails developed for the purposes of ecological education or nature interpretation, and its service areas such as communal shelters, toilets and parking lots; (centre écologique ou d’interprétation de la nature)

“ecological reserve” means an ecological reserve within the meaning of section 2 of the Natural Heritage Conservation Act (chapter C-61.01); (réserve écologique)

“engineered landfill, trench landfill and remote landfill” means a landfill governed respectively by Divisions 2, 3 and 6 of Chapter II of the Regulation respecting the landfilling and incineration of residual materials (chapter Q-2, r. 19); (lieu d’enfouissement technique, lieu d’enfouissement en tranchée et lieu d’enfouissement en territoire isolé)

“fish” means any fish within the meaning of section 1 of the Act respecting the conservation and development of wildlife (chapter C-61.1); (poisson)

“fish habitat” means a lake, a swamp, a marsh, a floodplain delimited by the 2-year mean high-water level or a watercourse frequented by fish; where the limits of a floodplain cannot be established as indicated, they shall correspond to the natural high-water mark; (habitat du poisson)

“fish hatchery” means a site comprising infrastructures and installations for the raising and breeding of fish; (station piscicole)

“forest and recreation zone” means a forest and recreation zone indicated in the land use plan for the lands in the domain of the State referred to in sections 21 and 77 of the Act respecting the lands in the domain of the State (chapter T-8.1); (zone forestière et récréative)

“forest cover density” means the relative ground cover by the ground projection of the top of trees 7 m tall or more; (densité du couvert forestier)

“forest management sector” means a part of the forest area measuring a maximum of 250 ha located within a parcel of the forest management unit and to which the same silvicultural treatment is applied in a given year; (secteur d’intervention)

“geotextile membrane” means a geotextile formed by a needlepunch nonwoven manufacturing process, with a minimum tensile strength of 1,000 newtons and an apparent opening size of less than 150 micrometres; (membrane géotextile)

“grouped vacation site” means a site comprising at least 5 vacation lots where the concentration is at least 1 lot per 0.8 ha; (site de villégiature regroupée)

“harvest site” means the territory delimited by the total of a management permit holder’s block cutting harvest areas, the closest parts of which are less than 2 km apart, and of the peripheral area of that total up to a distance of 2 km; (chantier de récolte)

“heritage site declared” means a territory declared as such by the Government under the Cultural Heritage Act; (site patrimonial déclaré)

“heronry” means a site where at least 5 nests have been used by great blue herons, black-crowned night herons or American egrets during at least 1 of the past 5 nesting seasons, including a strip of land 500 m wide surrounding the site or, where the lay of the land makes it impossible to extend the strip to 500 m, a smaller territory; (héronnière)

“highway corridor” means a public highway numbered by the Minister of Transport and located in the hardwood forest zone or in the fir and mixed forest zone, described in Schedule 1, or such a public highway located in the spruce forest zone, linking 2 local municipalities, or such a highway located not more than 50 km from the most densely populated part of a local municipality or an access road to an Indian reserve, to the settlements of Kitcisakik, Hunter’s Point, Pakuashipi, Oujé-Bougoumou and Winneway, to an accommodation centre or a welcome centre in an outfitting operation, a controlled zone or a wildlife sanctuary within the meaning of sections 86, 104 and 111 of the Act respecting the conservation and development of wildlife; (corridor routier)

“holder of a management permit” means the holder of a management permit or any person who, without holding that permit, is otherwise authorized to carry out a forest development activity under the Sustainable Forest Development Act (chapter A-18.1), or a third party to whom the permit holder or person entrusts the performance of the work authorized by the permit; (titulaire d’un permis d’intervention)

“ice bridge” means a structure built solely from water and snow and reinforced if necessary by a frame of interconnected logs; (pont de glace)

“integrated forest development plan” means a tactical plan or an operational plan for integrated forest development referred to in section 54 of the Sustainable Forest Development Act; (plan d’aménagement forestier intégré)

“intermittent watercourse” means a watercourse whose bed dries up periodically; (cours d’eau à écoulement intermittent)

“interregional trail or outlying trail of the concentrated networks” means a hiking trail developed for recreational purposes, linking 2 municipalities or 2 regions or linked to a concentrated trail network, excluding a snowmobile trail and an all-terrain vehicle trail; (parcours interrégional de randonnées diverses ou circuit périphérique des réseaux denses)

“island or peninsula inhabited by a colony of birds” means an island or a peninsula less than 50 ha in area where there are at least 25 nests per hectare of colony-dwelling bird species other than herons; (île ou presqu’île habitée par une colonie d’oiseaux)

“mossy black spruce stand” means a black spruce stand whose forest cover density is less than 40% and that grows on soil more than 40% covered by moss; (pessière à épinettes noires et cladonies)

“muskrat habitat” means a swamp or a pond at least 5 ha in area inhabited by muskrats; (habitat du rat musqué)

“natural high-water mark” means the point of transition from a predominance of aquatic vegetation to a predominance of land vegetation; if there is no aquatic vegetation, it means the point beyond which there is no more land vegetation; (ligne naturelle des hautes eaux)

“observation area” means a scenic outlook developed for the observation of nature; (site d’observation)

“observatory” means a site comprising infrastructures intended for astronomical or meteorological observation and its service areas, such as communal shelters, toilets and parking lots; (observatoire)

“outdoor recreation centre” means a site developed for the purposes of outdoor activities, and its service areas such as communal shelters, toilets and parking lots; (base et centre de plein air)

“parcel” means a subdivision of the forest management unit that makes it possible to locate, describe or record biophysical characteristics used as a basis for forest management; (parcelle)

“priority production” means production intended for a forest area in which silvicultural treatments are to be carried out, including harvesting; (production prioritaire)

“proposed ecological reserve” means a proposed ecological reserve indicated in the land use plan for the lands in the domain of the State referred to in sections 21 and 77 of the Act respecting the lands in the domain of the State or in the plan referred to in the Natural Heritage Conservation Act; (réserve écologique projetée)

“public beach” means a site comprising a beach, a strip of land extending 300 m inland from the shoreline and the facilities necessary for swimming and relaxation; (plage publique)

“rest area or picnic ground” means a site developed on the side of a highway corridor for rest purposes, and its service areas such as communal shelters, toilets and parking lots; (halte routière ou aire de pique-nique)

“restaurant or accommodation site” means a site that includes a dwelling offering restaurant or accommodation services on a commercial basis, or an area where an establishment has been constructed offering lodging for hunting and fishing activities on a commercial basis; (site de restauration ou d’hébergement)

“riparian ecotone” means the transitional area between the water environment and the arborescent vegetation, characterized by the muscinal, herbaceous or shrubby vegetation of wetlands and sometimes including a few scattered trees; (écotone riverain)

“salt lick” means the site of a swamp, spring or body of water, including a strip of land 100 m wide surrounding the site, that is frequented by moose and where mineral salts occur in concentrations greater than 3 parts per million of potassium and greater than 75 parts per million of sodium; (vasière)

“salvage cutting following a destructive agent” means the felling or harvesting of trees in a stand that has deteriorated as a result of a natural disaster, such as an insect infestation, a cryptogamic disease, a forest fire or a windfall, in order to salvage the timber which would otherwise be lost and to prevent the propagation of insects or diseases; (coupe de récupération à la suite d’un agent destructeur)

“sand pit” means an open-air site where unconsolidated substances such as sand, gravel and soil are extracted from surface deposits; (sablière)

“sanitary landfill and in-trench disposal site” means an elimination site within the meaning of paragraph l of section 1 of the Regulation respecting solid waste (chapter Q-2, r. 13); (site d’enfouissement sanitaire et de dépôts en tranchées)

“scenic route” means a highway corridor identified as the principal interregional access road or itinerary proposed on the map of the tourist guide published jointly by the Government and the regional tourism associations; (circuit panoramique)

“snowmobile trail” means a snowmobile trail within the meaning of paragraphs h, i and j of section 1 of the Regulation respecting snowmobiles (R.R.Q., 1981, c. C-24, r. 21), used every year and indicated in the integrated forest development plan; (sentier de motoneige)

“sojourn area” means an area regularly frequented by natives and located along a boat access route to trapping grounds, at the meeting point of a portage trail and a river or lake, identified by a native community and indicated in the integrated forest development plan; (aire de séjour)

“strip cutting with regeneration and soil protection” means cutting with regeneration and soil protection carried out in strips not more than 60 m wide and leaving and uncut strip at least as wide as the cut strip; (coupe par bandes avec protection de la régénération et des sols)

“territorial reference unit” means a common area or a subdivision thereof forming a single block and measuring less than 100 km2 in the case of the hardwood forest zone, less than 300 km2 in the case of the fir and mixed forest zone and less than 500 km2 in the case of the spruce forest zone, those zones being described in Schedule 1 and indicated in the integrated forest development plan; (unité territoriale de référence)

“watercourse” means any permanent or intermittent watercourse that is situated on lands in the domain of the State and that flows in the bed of a watercourse; (cours d’eau)

“waterfowl gathering area” means a site, measuring at least 25 ha, constituted by a swamp, a floodplain delimited by the 2-year mean high-water level, an intertidal zone, an aquatic plant community or a band of water not more than 1 km wide as measured from the low-water mark, that is frequented by geese or ducks during nesting or migration seasons and where there are at least 50 birds of those species per kilometre measured along a straight line between the 2 most distant points of the shoreline or 1.5 birds per hectare; where the limits of a floodplain cannot be established as indicated, they shall correspond to the natural high-water mark; (aire de concentration d’oiseaux aquatiques)

“water intake” means a site comprising a water intake subject to the Regulation respecting the quality of drinking water (chapter Q-2, r. 40) and the 60 m strip of vegetation surrounding it; (prise d’eau)

“white-tailed deer yard” means a wooded area measuring at least 250 ha where white-tailed deer gather during the period when the snow cover exceeds 40 cm in the part of the territory south of the St. Lawrence River and west of the rivière Chaudière and 50 cm elsewhere; (aire de confinement du cerf de Virginie)

“wilderness campground” means a site developed for camping with no running water or electricity service; (camping rustique)

“winter road” means a road the composition of whose roadway limits its use solely to the period during which the ground is frozen to a depth of at least 35 cm. (chemin d’hiver)

For the purposes of this Regulation, an outdoor recreation centre, a developed or semi-developed campground, a wilderness campground, an ecological or nature interpretation centre, an accommodation centre, a rest area or picnic ground, an engineered landfill, trench landfill or remote landfill, an interregional trail or outlying trail of the concentrated networks, a public beach, a water intake, a concentrated trail network, a snowmobile trail, an all-terrain vehicle trail, a dock and boat ramp site, a sanitary landfill and in-trench disposal site, an observation area, a restaurant or accommodation site, a downhill skiing site, a grouped vacation site, a complementary vacation site and a fish hatchery are those for which a right has been granted under a statute or a regulation of the Government.

O.C. 498-96, s. 1; O.C. 647-2001, s. 52; O.C. 439-2003, s. 1; O.C. 456-2005, s. 1; .

2012-09-01

1. In this Regulation,

“accommodation centre” means an establishment lodging people on a commercial basis that can accommodate at least 20 persons per day, built on an area forming a single block; (centre d’hébergement)

“all-terrain vehicle trail” means an all-terrain vehicle trail laid out and maintained by any operator, used every year and indicated in the 5-year forest management plan; (sentier de véhicule tout terrain)

“annual plan” means the plan referred to in section 57 of the Forest Act (c. F-4.1); (plan annuel d’intervention)

“archaeological sector” means a place where archaeological sites are concentrated and the surrounding grounds whose geographical characteristics offer an archaeological potential; (secteur archéologique)

“archaeological site” means a place where archaeological property is located that is entered in the register kept by the Ministère de la Culture et des Communications; (site archéologique)

“area frequented by caribou south of the 52nd parallel” means a territory used by a herd of at least 50 caribou for calving, breeding or winter feeding; (aire de fréquentation du caribou au sud du 52e parallèle)

“bear den” means a site used by bears to spend the winter and indicated in the 5-year forest management plan; (tanière d’ours)

“bed of a watercourse” means a natural depression in the ground free of vegetation or with a predominance of aquatic plants and characterized by signs of waterflow; (lit d’un cours d’eau)

“block cutting” means cutting with regeneration and soil protection carried out on a given territory so as to preserve, within the limits of the harvest site, a residual forest having the characteristics set out in section 79.2; (coupe en mosaïque)

“boat access route to trapping grounds” means a route comprising rivers, lakes and portage trails used for access to trapping grounds, identified by a native community, used every year and indicated in the 5-year forest management plan; (parcours d’accès en embarcation aux terrains de piégeage)

“bridge” means a structure with abutments that crosses an obstacle and without which there would be an interruption in the roadway; (pont)

“bridging” means a rigid removable structure that crosses a watercourse, preventing contact between machinery and the water and the bed of the watercourse, enabling water to flow freely; (pontage)

“burial site” means a place where the body of a deceased person is interred and that is indicated in the 5-year forest management plan; (site de sépulture)

“caribou calving area north of the 52nd parallel” means a territory frequented by at least 5 caribou cows per square kilometre during the period from 15 May to 1 July; (aire de mise bas du caribou au nord du 52e parallèle)

“cliff inhabited by a colony of birds” means a cliff, and a strip of land 100 m wide measured backwards from the cliff edge, where there are at least 10 seabird nests per 100 m of frontage; (falaise habitée par une colonie d’oiseaux)

“commercial species” means a tree species listed in Schedule 2; (essence commerciale)

“complementary vacation site” means a site comprising at least 3 vacation lots where the concentration is at least 1 lot per 0.8 ha, developed to complete the development of a grouped vacation site located on the shores of a lake where the biophysical characteristics of the environment no longer make it possible to comply with the installation criteria for a grouped vacation site; (site de villégiature complémentaire)

“concentrated trail network” means a site developed for recreational purposes and comprising various hiking trails at a density of 2.5 km per square kilometre and a strip of land 30 m wide surrounding the site; (réseau dense de randonnées diverses)

“culvert” means a conduit incorporated into the structure of a road, enabling water to flow freely from one side of the road to the other; (ponceau)

“cutting with regeneration and soil protection” means the harvesting of all trees whose usable diameter is at least equal to the diameter determined for each species in the management permit, by taking all the precautions required to avoid damaging the advance growth and by minimizing any disturbance of the soil; (coupe avec protection de la régénération et des sols)

“developed canoe-camping course” means a route comprising rivers, lakes and portage trails along the banks and shores of which there are 2 or more wilderness campgrounds maintained by a government agency, a municipality, the Fédération québécoise de canot-camping or a canoe-camping club recognized by the Fédération, and indicated in the 5-year forest management plan; (parcours aménagé de canot-camping)

“developed or semi-developed campground” means an area developed for a minimum of 10 campsites, accessible by roads suitable for motor vehicles and offering electricity or running water service for each campsite or group of not more than 20 campsites, and its service areas such as communal shelters, toilets and parking lots; (camping aménagé ou semi-aménagé)

“dock and boat ramp site” means a public site comprising a dock and a ramp for pleasure boats, developed for outdoor activities, and its service areas such as communal shelters, toilets and parking lots; (site de quai et rampe de mise à l’eau)

“downhill skiing site” means a site comprising a downhill ski centre, and its service areas such as communal shelters, toilets and parking lots; (site de ski alpin)

“dwelling” means any building intended for occupancy by human beings and provided with a drinking water supply system and a waste water disposal system connected to the ground; (habitation)

“ecological or nature interpretation centre” means a site comprising trails developed for the purposes of ecological education or nature interpretation, and its service areas such as communal shelters, toilets and parking lots; (centre écologique ou d’interprétation de la nature)

“ecological reserve” means an ecological reserve within the meaning of section 2 of the Natural Heritage Conservation Act (c. C-61.01); (réserve écologique)

“engineered landfill, trench landfill and remote landfill” means a landfill governed respectively by Divisions 2, 3 and 6 of Chapter II of the Regulation respecting the landfilling and incineration of residual materials (c. Q-2, r. 19); (lieu d’enfouissement technique, lieu d’enfouissement en tranchée et lieu d’enfouissement en territoire isolé)

“fish” means any fish within the meaning of section 1 of the Act respecting the conservation and development of wildlife (c. C-61.1); (poisson)

“fish habitat” means a lake, a swamp, a marsh, a floodplain delimited by the 2-year mean high-water level or a watercourse frequented by fish; where the limits of a floodplain cannot be established as indicated, they shall correspond to the natural high-water mark; (habitat du poisson)

“fish hatchery” means a site comprising infrastructures and installations for the raising and breeding of fish; (station piscicole)

“5-year forest management plan” means the plan referred to in section 52 of the Forest Act; (plan quinquennal d’aménagement forestier)

“forest and recreation zone” means a forest and recreation zone indicated in the land use plan for the lands in the domain of the State referred to in sections 21 and 77 of the Act respecting the lands in the domain of the State (c. T-8.1); (zone forestière et récréative)

“forest cover density” means the relative ground cover by the ground projection of the top of trees 7 m tall or more; (densité du couvert forestier)

“forest management sector” means a part of the forest area measuring a maximum of 250 ha located within a parcel of the forest management unit and to which the same silvicultural treatment is applied in a given year; (secteur d’intervention)

“geotextile membrane” means a geotextile formed by a needlepunch nonwoven manufacturing process, with a minimum tensile strength of 1,000 newtons and an apparent opening size of less than 150 micrometres; (membrane géotextile)

“grouped vacation site” means a site comprising at least 5 vacation lots where the concentration is at least 1 lot per 0.8 ha; (site de villégiature regroupée)

“harvest site” means the territory delimited by the total of a management permit holder’s block cutting harvest areas, the closest parts of which are less than 2 km apart, and of the peripheral area of that total up to a distance of 2 km; (chantier de récolte)

“heronry” means a site where at least 5 nests have been used by great blue herons, black-crowned night herons or American egrets during at least 1 of the past 5 nesting seasons, including a strip of land 500 m wide surrounding the site or, where the lay of the land makes it impossible to extend the strip to 500 m, a smaller territory; (héronnière)

“highway corridor” means a public highway numbered by the Minister of Transport and located in the hardwood forest zone or in the fir and mixed forest zone, described in Schedule 1, or such a public highway located in the spruce forest zone, linking 2 local municipalities, or such a highway located not more than 50 km from the most densely populated part of a local municipality or an access road to an Indian reserve, to the settlements of Kitcisakik, Hunter’s Point, Pakuashipi, Oujé-Bougoumou and Winneway, to an accommodation centre or a welcome centre in an outfitting operation, a controlled zone or a wildlife sanctuary within the meaning of sections 86, 104 and 111 of the Act respecting the conservation and development of wildlife; (corridor routier)

“historic district” means a territory declared as such by the Government under the Cultural Property Act (c. B-4); (arrondissement historique)

“historic site” means a place classified as such under the Cultural Property Act; (site historique)

“holder of a management permit” means the holder of a management permit or a third party to whom the permit holder entrusts the performance of the work authorized by the permit; (titulaire d’un permis d’intervention)

“ice bridge” means a structure built solely from water and snow and reinforced if necessary by a frame of interconnected logs; (pont de glace)

“intermittent watercourse” means a watercourse whose bed dries up periodically; (cours d’eau à écoulement intermittent)

“interregional trail or outlying trail of the concentrated networks” means a hiking trail developed for recreational purposes, linking 2 municipalities or 2 regions or linked to a concentrated trail network, excluding a snowmobile trail and an all-terrain vehicle trail; (parcours interrégional de randonnées diverses ou circuit périphérique des réseaux denses)

“island or peninsula inhabited by a colony of birds” means an island or a peninsula less than 50 ha in area where there are at least 25 nests per hectare of colony-dwelling bird species other than herons; (île ou presqu’île habitée par une colonie d’oiseaux)

“mossy black spruce stand” means a black spruce stand whose forest cover density is less than 40% and that grows on soil more than 40% covered by moss; (pessière à épinettes noires et cladonies)

“muskrat habitat” means a swamp or a pond at least 5 ha in area inhabited by muskrats; (habitat du rat musqué)

“natural district” means a territory declared as such by the Government under the Cultural Property Act; (arrondissement naturel)

“natural high-water mark” means the point of transition from a predominance of aquatic vegetation to a predominance of land vegetation; if there is no aquatic vegetation, it means the point beyond which there is no more land vegetation; (ligne naturelle des hautes eaux)

“observation area” means a scenic outlook developed for the observation of nature; (site d’observation)

“observatory” means a site comprising infrastructures intended for astronomical or meteorological observation and its service areas, such as communal shelters, toilets and parking lots; (observatoire)

“outdoor recreation centre” means a site developed for the purposes of outdoor activities, and its service areas such as communal shelters, toilets and parking lots; (base et centre de plein air)

“parcel” means a subdivision of the forest management unit that makes it possible to locate, describe or record biophysical characteristics used as a basis for forest management; (parcelle)

“priority production” means production intended for a forest area in which silvicultural treatments are to be carried out, including harvesting; (production prioritaire)

“proposed ecological reserve” means a proposed ecological reserve indicated in the land use plan for the lands in the domain of the State referred to in sections 21 and 77 of the Act respecting the lands in the domain of the State or in the plan referred to in the Natural Heritage Conservation Act; (réserve écologique projetée)

“public beach” means a site comprising a beach, a strip of land extending 300 m inland from the shoreline and the facilities necessary for swimming and relaxation; (plage publique)

“rest area or picnic ground” means a site developed on the side of a highway corridor for rest purposes, and its service areas such as communal shelters, toilets and parking lots; (halte routière ou aire de pique-nique)

“restaurant or accommodation site” means a site that includes a dwelling offering restaurant or accommodation services on a commercial basis, or an area where an establishment has been constructed offering lodging for hunting and fishing activities on a commercial basis; (site de restauration ou d’hébergement)

“riparian ecotone” means the transitional area between the water environment and the arborescent vegetation, characterized by the muscinal, herbaceous or shrubby vegetation of wetlands and sometimes including a few scattered trees; (écotone riverain)

“salt lick” means the site of a swamp, spring or body of water, including a strip of land 100 m wide surrounding the site, that is frequented by moose and where mineral salts occur in concentrations greater than 3 parts per million of potassium and greater than 75 parts per million of sodium; (vasière)

“salvage cutting following a destructive agent” means the felling or harvesting of trees in a stand that has deteriorated as a result of a natural disaster, such as an insect infestation, a cryptogamic disease, a forest fire or a windfall, in order to salvage the timber which would otherwise be lost and to prevent the propagation of insects or diseases; (coupe de récupération à la suite d’un agent destructeur)

“sand pit” means an open-air site where unconsolidated substances such as sand, gravel and soil are extracted from surface deposits; (sablière)

“sanitary landfill and in-trench disposal site” means an elimination site within the meaning of paragraph l of section 1 of the Regulation respecting solid waste (c. Q-2, r. 13); (site d’enfouissement sanitaire et de dépôts en tranchées)

“scenic route” means a highway corridor identified as the principal interregional access road or itinerary proposed on the map of the tourist guide published jointly by the Government and the regional tourism associations; (circuit panoramique)

“snowmobile trail” means a snowmobile trail within the meaning of paragraphs h, i and j of section 1 of the Regulation respecting snowmobiles (R.R.Q., 1981, c. C-24, r. 21), used every year and indicated in the 5-year forest management plan; (sentier de motoneige)

“sojourn area” means an area regularly frequented by natives and located along a boat access route to trapping grounds, at the meeting point of a portage trail and a river or lake, identified by a native community and indicated in the 5-year forest management plan; (aire de séjour)

“strip cutting with regeneration and soil protection” means cutting with regeneration and soil protection carried out in strips not more than 60 m wide and leaving and uncut strip at least as wide as the cut strip; (coupe par bandes avec protection de la régénération et des sols)

“territorial reference unit” means a common area or a subdivision thereof forming a single block and measuring less than 100 km2 in the case of the hardwood forest zone, less than 300 km2 in the case of the fir and mixed forest zone and less than 500 km2 in the case of the spruce forest zone, those zones being described in Schedule 1 and indicated in the general forest management plan referred to in Chapter III of the Forest Act; (unité territoriale de référence)

“watercourse” means any permanent or intermittent watercourse that is situated on lands in the domain of the State and that flows in the bed of a watercourse; (cours d’eau)

“waterfowl gathering area” means a site, measuring at least 25 ha, constituted by a swamp, a floodplain delimited by the 2-year mean high-water level, an intertidal zone, an aquatic plant community or a band of water not more than 1 km wide as measured from the low-water mark, that is frequented by geese or ducks during nesting or migration seasons and where there are at least 50 birds of those species per kilometre measured along a straight line between the 2 most distant points of the shoreline or 1.5 birds per hectare; where the limits of a floodplain cannot be established as indicated, they shall correspond to the natural high-water mark; (aire de concentration d’oiseaux aquatiques)

“water intake” means a site comprising a water intake subject to the Regulation respecting the quality of drinking water (c. Q-2, r. 40) and the 60 m strip of vegetation surrounding it; (prise d’eau)

“white-tailed deer yard” means a wooded area measuring at least 250 ha where white-tailed deer gather during the period when the snow cover exceeds 40 cm in the part of the territory south of the St. Lawrence River and west of the rivière Chaudière and 50 cm elsewhere; (aire de confinement du cerf de Virginie)

“wilderness campground” means a site developed for camping with no running water or electricity service; (camping rustique)

“winter road” means a road the composition of whose roadway limits its use solely to the period during which the ground is frozen to a depth of at least 35 cm. (chemin d’hiver)

For the purposes of this Regulation, an outdoor recreation centre, a developed or semi-developed campground, a wilderness campground, an ecological or nature interpretation centre, an accommodation centre, a rest area or picnic ground, an engineered landfill, trench landfill or remote landfill, an interregional trail or outlying trail of the concentrated networks, a public beach, a water intake, a concentrated trail network, a snowmobile trail, an all-terrain vehicle trail, a dock and boat ramp site, a sanitary landfill and in-trench disposal site, an observation area, a restaurant or accommodation site, a downhill skiing site, a grouped vacation site, a complementary vacation site and a fish hatchery are those for which a right has been granted under a statute or a regulation of the Government.

O.C. 498-96, s. 1; O.C. 647-2001, s. 52; O.C. 439-2003, s. 1; O.C. 456-2005, s. 1.