Bic National Park

Coastal scenery in the park area

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The Parc national du Bic 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 1984 established in the south of the province on the southern shore of the St. Lawrence River, just 33.2 km ² large park, is to offer a hand, harbor seals and gray seals as well as other residents of the St. Lawrence River, a refuge, on the other hand, the biodiversity protect on the adjacent mainland, which represents the southern edge of the boreal forest in a transition zone. Almost half of the protected area includes marine areas and salt marshes, associated with the adjacent hills. The highest point of the park is the 346 -meter-high Pic Champlain. In the park area erosion research is carried out since 2009.

History

In the park area to traces of human habitation to about 7000 can be traced back BC. 1976-1978 30 sites have been documented within each few weeks in the park area. Three sites could be assigned to the Late Archaic period.

From the period of French colonial rule, nothing is known about the area, first with the British, it was one of the feudal lords. Until 1905 there was a pilot station on the Île du Bic, but she was moved to Pointe -au- Père. Until then, a little farming on the St. Lawrence River was operated. Since the end of the 19th century Cottages originated on the river, some of which are still preserved. In the early 1970s began preparations for the establishment of a protected area, in 1984 the park was opened.

Flora and Fauna

The park is located on the southern border of the boreal forests. Therefore, this transition vegetation has been a strong argument for the establishment of the park, although logging and agricultural use had already changed before the fauna. The abandoned fields provide inspection at the return of the original species in the fallow.

During the 1990s, shrank the white-tailed deer population, but it has since recovered. 2005/ 06 was estimated at 113 ± 25 animals. Harbor seals and gray seals are the most conspicuous inhabitants of Küstensaums, but which is also visited by whales and dolphins.

Since then, Quebec has joined the program for the protection of birds of prey and the reintroduction of certain species in 1980, the stocks, such as the peregrine recover. They were previously completely broken by the use of DDT. Sun, 15 falcons were exposed.

Collecting clams should back several millennia. Today, however, they are often charged as heavy metals, so their catch is prohibited in many places. This is partly due to industrial activities, which resulted in the the park nearby bay Ha! Ha! collect the toxins.

Beach urchins ( Psammechinus miliaris ) could be detected in 1984 at 15 locations in the park. On the coastal fringe of the park there is a small population of Atlantic salmon, which consisted in 1990 of 25, maybe 40 animals.

Many reptile and amphibian species live in the park. Detected were up to 2010: the forest frog, then the well-known than grenouille verte in English as mink frog, in French frog Rana septentrionalis, the leopard frog, Pseudacris crucifer and Bufo americanus, ( Eurycea bislineata ), Plethodon cinereus, Ambystoma maculatum, the equally from the family of transverse tooth newts comes as the Blue cross dental stains newt. In addition, brown snakes like Storeria occipitomaculata, collar snake ( Diadophis punctatus ) or the Common Garter Snake.

Inventories for small mammals, salamanders, snakes, etc. are to be created.