Kettles-de-Berry Ecological Reserve

IUCN Category Ia - Strict Nature Reserve

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The Réserve écologique of Kettles -de -Berry is a 267 -hectare sanctuary in the western Canadian province of Quebec, in the Canton de Berry, about 45 kilometers northwest of Amos.

The park represents within the protected area system of the province of the County Municipality of Abitibi and in particular the local kettle holes ( kettles ) and kettle holes, and the Esker of Berry, which have emerged from the last ice age. The landscape is located 320-345 m above sea level.

With the emergence of large blocks of ice were Toteissees, which often swim beneath the glaciers covered during the melting of the glacier, such as sand. Therefore, these lakes have no inflow or outflow and form after the final melting of the ice sinks. However, kettle holes created by the becoming wet from kettle holes. In the park area will also find post-glacial lakes such as Lac en Coeur, the Paludier Lac and the Lac la Perdrix. While these glacial and post-glacial structures have been used elsewhere or filled mostly as a gravel pit or as a dumping ground, the Kettles of Berry are very well preserved.

However, just the western slope of a portion of the eskers of Berry in reserve. This is relatively flat and much wider than high. Black spruce and jack pine predominate, but there are in the region of rare plants such Eriocaulon septangulare from the comprehensive 1400 species family of Eriocaulaceae, which finds one of its northernmost occurrence here, and the strictly protected in Germany Water Lobelia (Lobelia dortmanna ).