59. A holder of a management permit who carries out cutting with regeneration and soil protection or block cutting in a visual setting referred to in section 58 shall make at least 3 patches whose perimeters follow the lay of the land and shall ensure that the total area of the patches does not cover more than 1/3 of the area of the visual setting during each third of the cutting cycle of the stands, the purpose of those measures being to preserve the quality of the landscape.
Strip cutting with regeneration and soil protection is prohibited in a visual setting referred to in section 58.
O.C. 498-96, s. 59; O.C. 439-2003, s. 3.