Réserve écologique Victor-A.-Huard
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Réserve écologique Victor-A.-Huard
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| location | Le Fjord-du-Saguenay , Quebec, Canada | |
| surface | 0.2 km² | |
| WDPA ID | 23098 | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 12 ' N , 71 ° 14' W | |
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| Setup date | 1990 | |
| administration | MDDEP | |
The Réserve écologique Victor-A.-Huard is a protected area established in 1990 on an area of 20 hectares in the southern Canadian province of Québec in the regional county municipality of Le Fjord-du-Saguenay .
It is located on the largest of the four islands in Lac des Îlets , 30 km south of the municipality of Chicoutimi . It represents and protects the forests typical of the Contreforts des Laurentides du Saguenay ecoregion and the Saguenay Mountains , with paper birch , black spruce and yellow birch dominating here. The stands are untouched, the age of the trees is over 150 years. In black spruce stands, a distinction is made between moss ( pessière noire à mousses ), Chamaedaphne ( à chamédaphné , a genus to which, for example, the peat peat belongs) and types accompanied by fern.
The protected area is 350 to 400 m above sea level. The subsoil of the island consists mainly of granite and pegmatite . Then Tillit arrived during and after the last ice age , but it is broken through by rock in many places. Podzol was formed, interspersed with rock and stone and moderately to slightly soaked. In some places there is also Regosol and here and there layers with a high proportion of organic material.
The name of the area goes back to Abbé Victor-Alphonse Huard (1853-1929), a botanist and entomologist who was particularly concerned with butterflies . He worked for the Church in Chicoutimi, where he became director of the Grand Séminaire. From 1894 he published in Le Naturaliste Canadien , which was founded in 1868 and which he soon took over as director. He also took over the herbarium from its founder, Léon Abel Provancher. He wrote his biography ( A la mémoire de l'abbé Provancher. Le Linné du Canada à l'occasion du 25e anniversaire de sa mort , 1918, and La vie et l'oeuvre de l'abbé Provancher , 1926) and published on butterflies giving up his plan to describe all species in the province. He was one of the first to describe the Côte-Nord region . In 1913 he became a member of the Royal Society of Canada and in 1916 was awarded an honorary doctorate from Québec's Laval University. The latter acquired his herbarium from the Séminaire in 2003, which contains 8,000 specimens representing 3,000 species. However, Huard took an anti-evolutionist point of view, similar to Provancher.
Web links
- Réserve écologique Victor-A.-Huard , government website
- Commission de toponymie du Québec: Réserve écologique Victor-A.-Huard
Remarks
- ↑ Victor-Alphonse Huard: Les principales espèces d'insectes nuisibles et de maladies végétales , Québec 1916 or Manuel theorique et pratique d'entomologie , 1927.