Réserve écologique Ernest-Lepage
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Réserve écologique Ernest-Lepage
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| location | Bonaventure , Quebec, Canada | |
| surface | 8.1 km² | |
| WDPA ID | 18149 | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 32 ′ N , 65 ° 43 ′ W | |
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| Setup date | 1983 | |
| administration | MDDEP | |
The Réserve écologique Ernest-Lepage is an 810 hectare protected area established in 1983 in the south of the Canadian province of Québec .
The reserve represents the northern Appalachians , more precisely the Monts Notre-Dame . It is located about 40 km northwest of New Richmond , on the west bank of the Petite rivière Cascapédia Est . It is around 50 km from the municipality of Bonaventure , to which it formally belongs.
The protected area is located on a plateau, around 400 m above sea level. The rocky subsoil of the area, which belongs to the northern end of the Appalachian Mountains, contains mainly slate and limestone as well as post-glacial deposits.
Here prevail yellow and paper birch , balsam fir and black spruce , on the plateau rather the Occidental Tree of Life (French .: Thuya occidental), whose stocks are referred to in francophone North America as "cédrières".
The name of the reserve is reminiscent of the botanist Abbé Ernest Lepage (1905–1981) from Rimouski . In addition to numerous works on arctic and sub-arctic plants, he wrote about mosses, lichens and liverworts in the province of Québec. He described 150 new taxons and wrote 126 scientific papers. In his will he bequeathed his personal herbarium with 35,000 species to the Université Laval .
Web links
- Réserve écologique Ernest-Lepage , government website