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

Section 14 Disposition versions

2012-09-01

14. In order to launch and float timber, a holder of a management permit may install a piling and sawing area as well as a timber launching structure along a lake or watercourse, in accordance with the following conditions:

(1)  the area must be used for more than 3 years;

(2)  before using the area, the permit holder must remove organic matter and pile it up for later reuse at a distance of more than 20 m from the lake or watercourse, as measured from the natural high-water mark;

(3)  if the permit holder raises the level of the ground along the watercourse or lake, he must construct a retaining wall;

(4)  the permit holder may clear the bank or shore along a maximum length of 300 m where a single mobile slasher is used, 450 m where 2 mobile slashers are used and 600 m where more than 2 mobile shashers are used;

(5)  where the permit holder clears the shore or bank for 450 or 600 m, he must use the mobile slashers concurrently for at least 4 months a year;

(6)  the permit holder must pile the waste from sawing operations at a distance of more than 20 m from the lake or watercourse, as measured from the natural high-water mark;

(7)  the permit holder must divert the drainage water from that area towards a vegetation area located at least 20 m from the lake or watercourse, as measured from the natural high-water mark; and

(8)  the permit holder must preserve a buffer strip 30 m wide between the forest road and the piling and sawing area. Notwithstanding the foregoing, he may harvest trees therein in accordance with section 4.

When the area is abandoned, the permit holder shall clean it of all materials, infrastructures or waste and then respread the organic matter that has been piled up.

Within 2 years after it is abandoned, the permit holder shall ensure that the area is regenerated with commercial species and that the distribution coefficient of such regeneration, established in accordance with section 90, is at least equal to the coefficient existing before the cutting of the species over that area.

The permit holder shall also ensure, 8 years after the area is abandoned, that the coefficient is maintained.

O.C. 498-96, s. 14.