Mont-Orford National Park

View of the Mont- Orford from the Pic de l'Ours

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The Mont - Orford National Park and Parc national du Mont- Orford is one of the 24 National Parks in the Canadian province of Québec. There is a corresponding Parc national but what is a provincial park in the other provinces and territories.

The task of the 1979 south of the St. Lawrence River, decorated in the extreme south of the province, 58.37 km ² large park, is the area to protect the eponymous mountain and to represent. The park is located west and north of Magog Sherbrooke. To avoid that leisure activities destroy the ecosystem, they are limited to certain areas. Thus, with the Centre d'art Orford a concert hall, further is the mountain ski and hiking area. The two main lakes are Lac Fraser and the Lac Stukely; after them are also the two sectors of the little park named.

History

1938, the surrounding communities agreed to protect the mountain before industrial use ( development). A few years later a golf course. As part of the Expo 67, the Centre d'art Orford was built, soon followed by a ski resort. 1976 expanded the government's area of ​​the park of about 40 on 58.37 km ². First, they wanted to remove the device from the park, but in 1979 it was decided that the park should serve both ecological and recreational purposes.

2005 began lobbying groups of the real estate and construction industries its influence with the government to claim it. They reached that Quebec gave permission to the middle of the park in order, on 649 hectares to build the ski resort accommodations for about 1,000 visitors. In contrast, the group SOS Parc Orford organized resistance because it considered it illegal. Reacted to the competent Ministère du Développement durable, de l' Environnement et des Parcs ( Ministry of Sustainable Development, Environment and Parks ) with the offer to double the parking area. SOS Parc Orford rejected this fails with the notice, if it were ecologically poor areas, and by no means could the loss of the most important in this respect are compensated in the park area. On 21 April 2006, written eight former directors Park an open letter to the government, the next day 12,000 people demonstrated in Montreal against the plans. The government now reduced the building area to 579 ha, but on May 7, 2007, she was no majority in parliament. Nevertheless, they took the law that had this sale possible only, not back. Renatured Only with the law of Mont - Orford National Park concerning the loi concernant le parc national du Mont- Orford reintegrated on May 26, 2010, the leisure facilities and the planned construction sites in the park, the golf course.

Flora and Fauna

Overall, the ecosystem is threatened not only by the tourism and entertainment industry and the construction industry and the real estate business, but also from the periphery. On the one hand there is still hunted, on the other hand, the leisure industry attracts traffic which causes correspondingly increasing numbers of animal accidents. In addition, reclamation and seals in favor of hotels and leisure facilities in the neighborhood damage the water system.

In the numerous ponds and pools of the park snap and painted turtles live, where the raccoon is considered its most dangerous predator eggs.

A pair of peregrine falcons nesting in 2008 at Pic aux Corbeaux, which represents a success of the current campaign since 2002 to reintroduce these birds in southern Québec.

The frequent in all Canadian Parks campfire brings to the insect world wide dangers because very often unused wood is taken from one park to the next. Always new species are unintentionally introduced, including those that cause tree diseases.