Grande-Rivière Ecological Reserve

IUCN Category Ia - Strict Nature Reserve

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The Réserve écologique de la Grande- Rivière is on an area of 173 km ² furnished in 2001 reserve in the south of the Canadian province of Quebec.

It is in the MRC Le Rocher -Perce on the eastern tip of the Gaspé Peninsula and protects the contiguous area of the upper reaches of the La Grande Rivière to 40 km in length, as well as its tributaries. This river is not to be confused with the Ottawa, which is often called " la Grande Rivière " or "the Grand River ", or La Grande Rivière in the northwest of the province.

The area is largely untouched by human intervention and larger forest fires. This means that the drinking water supply of the city Grande- Rivière on the coast is backed up next to the ecosystem. Below the protected area is an area with limited economic exploitation. At tree species in the reserve black spruce, balsam fir, western arborvitae, occasionally also represented paper birch. Also found in the higher areas in the southeast of red maple and yellow and paper birch, in the areas along the Grande Rivière Est is one of the northernmost occurrence of sugar maple and yellow birch.

In the protected area there are numerous other plant species, such as the Ruprechtsfarn ( Gymnocarpium robertianum ), but also Alpenwinterfarn ( Woodsia alpina) or Dryas drummondii from the kind of silver Wurzen. The latter is a relic of the last ice age; otherwise the plant will only further 1500 km further north.

In addition to this Arnica lonchophylla apply subsp. lonchophylla of the genus Arnica since 2001, and Queen Lady's Slipper ( Cypripedium reginae ) as endangered. Fully protected are the Asters d' Anticosti, the asters of Anticosti.

Are protected, the Atlantic salmon, the golden eagle and the white-tailed deer.