Parc national des Monts-Valin
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Parc national des Monts-Valin
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| location | Quebec , Canada | |
| surface | 153.6 km² | |
| WDPA ID | 66633 | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 37 ′ N , 70 ° 48 ′ W | |
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| Setup date | 1996 | |
| administration | Parcs Québec, SEPAQ | |
The Parc national des Monts-Valin is one of the current 27 national parks in the Canadian province of Québec . There, a corresponding Parc national but what in the other provinces and territories a provincial park ( Provincial Park equivalent). The park is operated by Sépaq ( French Société des établissements de plein air du Québec or English Society of outdoor recreation establishments of Quebec ).
The task of the 153.6 km² park, established in 1996 in the south of the province north of the Saint Lawrence River , is to protect and represent the peculiarities of part of the Monts Valin . The mountain range lies in the administrative region Saguenay – Lac-Saint-Jean . The highest mountain in the area is the 984 m high Pic Dubuc . The park is located about 30 km northeast of Chicoutimi on the north bank of the Rivière Saguenay .
history
It is unclear where the name valine comes from. It first appeared on a map by Père Laure in 1731 and on one by Nicolas Bellin in 1744. Possibly the name goes back to François Valin, a resident of L'Ancienne-Lorette near Québec who was born in 1693.
In 1863 the first logging license was issued. The area of the park was shared by the three companies MT Wyatt , Joseph D. Guay and Dunn Home & Co. They were in turn bought at the end of the 19th century by Price Brothers & Co. , which had been active in the Saguenay region since 1842. After the wood boom and especially after the Second World War, hunting and fishing clubs reserved the right to use the fauna of the later park. In 1978 this type of club in the province was dissolved and the area became a zone d'exploitation contrôlé , a zone of controlled exploitation. Even today, the park is surrounded by other zones of this type in the west, north and east.
Since the early 1960s, environmentalists tried to give this area a higher status. Starting in 1982, preparations were made to turn the area into a park, and skiers were banned in 1984. The park was established on September 19, 1996. From 1999 the Société des établissements de plein air du Québec took over all parks in the province, in 2001 all provincial parks were elevated to Parcs nationaux, as they had the task of representing all of the province's ecoregions.
fauna
At least 37 species of mammals live in the park, including elk , black bear and wolf , lynx , urson or tree porcupine, beaver and muskrat , white-tailed deer and wood caribou. The Puma (cougar), rediscovered for the first time in 2002, is extremely rare .
In addition, there are the common garter snake , extremely rarely the Storeria occipitomaculata , the red belly snake of the Anglophones. Among the amphibians is Anaxyrus americanus is from the family of toads , the tree frog Pseudacris crucifer (Rainette crucifère du Nord) who spread almost throughout Canada forest frog and the common in eastern North America Greenish Newt , finally Ambystoma maculatum (Salamandre maculée) from the Family of the cross-toothed newts and the salamander Plethodon cinereus, in English also called Redback Salamander , in French Salamandre cendrée .
See also
literature
- The research scientifique dans les Parcs nationaux québécois. Priorités et potentiels de recherche , published by Parcs Québec and Sépaq, undated, pp. 134–138.
Web links
- Parc national des Monts-Valin , Sépaq (French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ La vallée de la biodiversité ( Memento of the original from March 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
