The Pontiac MRC forestry department is a dynamic and experienced team with a wide ranging mandate and is involved in most of the Pontiac MRC’s forestry files. This requires ongoing cooperation with citizens, elected officials and several other partners. This service is therefore a primary meeting place for all individuals connected to the forestry sector. Here is an overview of the files in which the forest service is involved.
Public forests
- Forest crisis
- Consolidation of the forest industry
- Single officer project
- Corporation for permanent maintenance of public fire roads
- Integrated resource management table / local issue table
- Public consultations on forest management plans submitted by individuals awarded timber supply and forest management agreements (TSFMA)
Shared Municipal Territory (TPI)*
* Applies only to the TPI’s residual forests, or 9,441 hectares (less than 5%) of the total TPI area, most of which is concentrated in the Otter Lake and Alleyn-et-Cawood areas.
- Planning forest management projects on TPI, management and follow-up of harvest operations
- Contracts for forest harvesting, timber marking, and fire road construction
- Implementation of TPI forest certification
- Management of cottage and commercial leases
- Management of land files (naked possession, unlawful occupation, etc.)
- Daily management of public requests and concerns regarding TPI
- Management of public consultations
- Identification of property lines with landowners adjacent to TPI
- Multi-resource advisory committee
- Regional and provincial TPI committee
- Other management projects
Private forests
- Support for municipalities with respect to municipal regulation of logging in private forests;
- Partner with the agence de mise en valeur des forêts privées de l’Outaouais [Outaouais private forests enhancement agency] (administrative committee, board of directors and other ad hoc committees);
- Partner with the Pontiac Wood Producers Association to accredit forest contractors for improving forest practices in private forests.
Development, education, awareness and cooperation
- Raise awareness and educate citizens, elected officials, and partners on forest issues;
- Organize the Journée des arbres et des forêts du Pontiac (trees and forest day)
- Encourage cooperation among various partners;
- Provide services to meet occasional requests from various partners using forests in the MRC territory;
- Parcitipate in socio-economic development activities.
Major forest service partners
- Agence de mise en valeur des forêts privées de l’Outaouais [Outaouais private forests enhancement agency]
- Associations de villégiateurs [cottagers’ association]
- Office of the MP for Pontiac
- Snowmobilers club
- Commission régionale des ressources naturelles et du territoire de l’Outaouais (CRRNT) [Outaouais regional commission on natural resources and territory]
- Conférence régionale des élus de l’Outaouais (CRÉO) [Outaouais regional conference of elected officials]
- Corporation de gestion des forêts du Pontiac (Groupement forestier du Pontiac et la Coopérative forestière de l’Outaouais) [Pontiac forest management corporation (Pontiac forestry association and Outaouais forestry corporative]
- Forestry contractors
- Environmental groups
- Forest industry
- Ministère des ressources naturelles et de la faune (MRNF) [Quebec natural resources and wildlife ministry]
- Adjacent MRCs
- Office des producteurs de bois du Pontiac [Pontiac wood producers association]
- Tourist organisations
- First Nations groups
- Etc.
For any questions related to MRC Pontiac’s Forest Management Services, contact Jason Durand, Director of Territory (Forests) at (819) 648-5689, ext. 219 or email: j.durand@mrcpontiac.qc.ca.
