Trail maintenance

Security

Safety in the forest

The Commission des normes, de l'équité, de la santé et de la sécurité du travail (CNESST) is offering three free books containing the information you need to use a chainsaw, stay healthy in the forest and organize first aid in the forest. Very useful for management chores when help is far away!

Manual felling
Organizing first aid in the forest
Forest health

Emergency services in remote areas

In response to a report by the Québec Ombudsman, the Public Safety Department set up a committee to develop a frame of reference and an awareness-raising campaign aimed at increasing the safety of emergency responders and off-road users. 

Environment

Threatened or vulnerable species in Quebec

All species of flora and fauna have their own characteristics and are important, whether for their ecological, scientific, food, economic, medicinal, cultural or social value. With the Loi sur les espèces menacées ou vulnérables, the Quebec government has committed itself to safeguarding all of Quebec's genetic diversity.

Wetlands

In Quebec, wetlands occupy some 17 million hectares or 170,000 km², or approximately 10 % of the entire territory. Whether ponds, marshes, swamps or peat bogs, wetlands represent the essential links in the web of natural environments in Quebec. These ecosystems comprise all sites saturated with water or flooded for a sufficiently long period to influence the nature of the soil or the composition of the vegetation.

Financing

The Route verte management area compiles an array of different funding sources, some of which can be used to develop natural-surface trails.