Réserve écologique Jules-Carpentier
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Réserve écologique Jules-Carpentier
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| location | Portneuf , Quebec, Canada | |
| surface | 0.05 km² | |
| WDPA ID | 308491 | |
| Geographical location | 46 ° 47 ′ N , 71 ° 40 ′ W | |
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| Setup date | 2000 | |
| administration | MDDEP | |
The Réserve écologique Jules-Carpentier is a small ecological reserve in the south of the Canadian province of Québec , 3.5 km northeast of the municipality of Pont-Rouge . It was established in 2000 on an area of 4.67 hectares.
It protects white pine (called pin blanc ), American red spruce and balsam fir ( Abies balsamea ). These stand on sandy surfaces that the Jacques-Cartier River has piled up and compressed since the last Ice Age, i.e. for 12,000 years.
The name of the reserve refers to the nature lover and forest protector Jules Carpentier (1921–1983), who died in 1983 and who understood in the 1970s that the forest is an ecologically extremely complex resource that should not be unlimited. The heirs of his forest area bequeathed it to the province, which made it a protected area.