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Réserve aquatique projetée de la Rivière
Summary description of the territory BOUNDARIES AND LOCATION The proposed aquatic reserve has an area of 1 445 km2. It adjoins the Abitibi-Témiscamingue and Outaouais administrative regions. Major permitted and prohibited activities1 PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES Pursuant to the Natural Heritage Conservation Act, the main activities prohibited in a territory with the status of a aquatic reserve are: • Forest development within the meaning of section 3 of the Forest Act (R.S.Q., c. F 4.1); • Mining, gas or oil exploration and development; • Exploitation of hydropower and any commercial or industrial energy production • Any other activity prohibited by the conservation plan or by a regulatory. PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT The territory seeks to protect the Rivière Dumoine, one of the last major unharnessed rivers in southern Québec, its valley and immediate drainage basin. The source of the roughly 140-km long river is in Lac Machin north of Lac Antiquois. The river flows southward into Lac Dumoine then into the Ottawa River, a dozen kilometres west of Rapides-des-Joachims. The river generally follows a U-shaped valley that becomes increasingly steep as it advances toward the mouth. BIOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENT The southern half of the reserve is part of the sugar maple-yellow birch climatic domain and the northern half is part of the balsam fir-yellow birch bioclimatic domain. Because of the territory’s size and elongated shape along a north-south axis, it displays a significant array of forest ecosystems, ranging from yellow birchfir-sugar maple stands to balsam fir-black spruce-white birch stands, balsam fir-red spruce stands, or balsam fir-cedar stands. A valley with occasionally steep sides favours white pine stands and certain sandy environments in the valley bottom can host red pine stands. On the eastern slope of the river valley, near the mouth, peaks are suited to sugar maple-northern red oak stands. Mature forests (80 years or older) are found on nearly two-thirds of the territory under forest cover whereas old-growth forests cover just over half of it. Photo: M.-A. Bouchard MDDEFP PERMITTED ACTIVITIES1 2 • Trapping camps, basic shelters and cabins and their incidental structures allowed by the lease; • Harvesting wood to build an outdoor campfire; • The maintenance or rebuilding of infrastructures; • Trapping, hunting and fishing; • Free access to the territory; • The harvesting of small fruits or plant species for domestic use; • Stays lasting 90 days or less (camping); • Any recreative, touristic or ecotouristic activities; • Domestic animals. Photo: M.-A. Bouchard MDDEFP ACTIVITIES SUBJECT TO AUTHORIZATION1 2 3 • The erection, installation or construction of new buildings; • The construction of new infrastructure and new recreational or educational trails; • Soil development work; • Wood harvesting for domestic purposes. SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT Prior to the colonization of the Témiscamingue region, the territory, which is linked to the Ottawa River, a major travel route for the Aboriginal peoples, may have been extensively occupied as a seasonal camp and frequented, in particular, by the Anishnabeg. The territory has significant archaeological research potential. Some 90 sites have been located. Excavations were carried out in 2002 on one of them. The Rivière Dumoine and its environs are now the site of hunting and fishing. Moreover, the river is a renowned canoe-kayak course of average difficulty (rated 5 stars by the Fédération québécoise de canoé-kayak). Réserve aquatique projetée de la Rivière-Dumoine A majestic river of rich forests For more information: http://www.mddefp.gouv.qc.ca/biodiversite/aires_protegees/consultation/ abitibi-temis/index.htm http://www.mddefp.gouv.qc.ca/biodiversite/aquatique/dumoine/PSC_ Dumoine.pdf CONTRIBUTION OF THE PROTECTED AREA The reserve is protecting a big river in southern Québec and its valley and a significant portion of its drainage basin. Its forests are diversified, extensive and mature. PROPOSAL FOR A PERMANENT AQUATIC RESERVE The proposed place name for the granting of permanent status is the Réserve aquatique de la Rivière-Dumoine. Photo: M.-A. Bouchard MDDEFP Pursuant to the Natural Heritage Conservation Act, any other form of permit or authorization 1 pursuant to another statute or regulation is compulsory. The conservation plan can prohibited any activity if it impacts the biodiversity. 2 Authorization criterias apply. 3 La réserve aquatique projetée de la Rivière-Dumoine Legend ² Vacation lease ³ Controlled harvesting zone ³ ² Other protected areas Active ! Fire tower A Natural province Outfitter camp Natural region Physiographic ensemble ZEC Saint-Patrice Lac Gardner (TN O) Lacs Aumond Pourvoirie du Lac Dix Milles Lac Dix Milles Lac du Vieillard ult Lac Cullin ZEC Dumoine Rivi ère AB OUT AOU ITIBI- from 250 to 300 meters less than 250 meters Lac à la Truite 0 Lac Florio 10 km Lac Sandeau Territoire désigné (Lac Watson) Lac Watson Lac du Pin Blanc ZEC Restigo Lac aux Sangsues ZEC Restigo n Lac Saint-Cirque Lac du Fils Lac Cabazié ZEC Maganasipi Ri v s-J oa ch 7 ! ) Lac Benwah o ld e Lac Six Milles -de im Lac Penniseault UE (La c H Lac Duncan AMING ou a is Lac Babinet es Du mo ine O ut a from 300 to 350 meters pid ³ ² AI S TÉM ISC ed es from 350 to 400 meters Ra Lac Ferris iè r Lac aux Foins lité ipa nic Lac Russell Lac Malouin Elevation more than 450 meters from 400 to 450 meters de Lac Robinson Lac Perdu Ri Lac Ramé lité Lac du Pinceau Lac Algonquin ZEC Kipawa ipa Lac Stevens ine mo Lac Laforge Pourvoirie Kipawa (1991) inc. nic Du Lac Brûlart Lac du Lièvre re Lac-Niga u OUTA lt (T N O) OUA AB IS Le I T I BI-TÉM IS sL S a cs-Témi CA M I NGU E O) scam in g ues ( TN Mu Lac Ingley Mu Lac Sheerway Pourvoirie Triple "R" inc. Lac Sept Milles Lac Antiquois Lac Dumoine Pourvoirie du Lac à la Truite inc. Sh iga Lac Marion ZEC Rapides-des-Joachims vi è MISCAMIN ABITIBI-TÉ La S GUES 169240 Canada inc. de c-N Lac de l'Orignal OUTAOUAI Ré ) NO is ( T o zo O) TN ir D es( rvo ngu se ami isc ém -T cs Le s Lac Vaucour ON TA RIO Lac des Baies Lac Hawkesbury La Lac Joncas oro Réserve faunique La Vérendrye Lac Réserve aquatique projetée Saint-Patrice de la Rivière-Dumoine Lac Corrigan nb ° O) Lac-Nigault (TN Grand lac Victoria In demand Outfitter camp Lac Larive O) Réservoir Do zois (TN Lac la Perche ¶ ² Shelter lease Outfitter Boundary (administrative region, MRC, municipality) Mining right Occupation Wildlife reserve ee Réserve aquatique projetée de la Rivière-Dumoine s
