84. Where forest management activities are carried out in a stand located on an island that is part of the lands in the domain of the State and that has an area of 250 to 500 ha, a holder of a management permit shall carry out cuttings that promote natural regeneration of the stand with commercial species.
In the stand, the size of a management permit holder’s single-block area of cutting with regeneration and soil protection, of the total area of the cut and residual strips in an area of strip cutting with regeneration and soil protection or of a block cutting harvest area may not exceed 30 ha. In addition, the permit holder shall ensure that the total area of the cuts does not cover more than ⅓ of the forest area of the island during each third of the cutting cycle of the stands.
O.C. 498-96, s. 84; O.C. 439-2003, s. 10.