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

Section 79 Disposition versions

2012-09-01

79. The provisions of paragraph 2 of section 47 and of sections 74 to 78 do not apply to a holder of a management permit who carries out cutting with regeneration and soil protection or strip cutting with regeneration and soil protection if the permit holder preserves, between 2 cutting areas referred to in this section or between such cutting area and a cutting area referred to in section 74, an area equivalent to the largest cutting area, with forest stands composed of trees, bushes or brushwood at least 3 m in height, until regeneration of the cut area is established in accordance with section 90 and has reached an average height of 3 m.

For the purposes of the first paragraph, the size of a single-block area of cutting with regeneration and soil protection or of the total area of the cut and residual strips of an area of strip cutting with regeneration and soil protection shall be less than 50 ha in the hardwood forest zone, 100 ha in the fir and mixed forest zone and 150 ha in the spruce forest zone.

Where a holder of a management permit carries out cutting referred to in the first paragraph on the periphery of a salt lick, the equivalent area preserved in accordance with that paragraph shall be in contact with a part of the salt lick.

O.C. 498-96, s. 79.