Jules-Carpentier Ecological Reserve

IUCN Category Ia - Strict Nature Reserve

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The Réserve écologique Jules Carpentier is a small ecological reserve in the south of the Canadian province of Quebec, 3.5 km northeast of the village of Pont - Rouge. It was established in 2000 on an area of 4.67 ha.

It protects Weymouth pine trees ( called pin blanc ), American red spruce and balsam fir (Abies balsamea ). These are available in sandy areas, that has so piled and pressed since the last ice age 12,000 years the river Jacques- Cartier.

The name of the protected area refers to the nature lover who died in 1983 and forest guards Jules Carpentier ( 1921-1983 ), who conceived in the 1970s that the forest is not unlimited existing, ecologically extremely complex resource that should be preserved. The heirs of his woodland it bequeathed to the province, which made ​​a reserve of it.