30. Despite section 27, the holder of a mining right to whom a forestry permit was issued who lays out an access to an open peat bog with a pond, to a marsh, to a riparian shrub swamp, to a lake or to a permanent watercourse in order to carry out mining exploration work or to install equipment required for such work may clear an opening not wider than 5 m in the strip of woodland.
The stumps, grass and advance growth must be preserved in that opening.
473-2017O.C. 473-2017, s. 30.