Thomas-Sterry-Hunt International Ecological Reserve

IUCN Category Ia - Strict Nature Reserve

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The Réserve écologique international Thomas Sterry Hunt is an ecological reserve in the south of the Canadian province of Quebec.

It was established in 1988 on an area of ​​56.1 ha. It is in the MRC Montmagny on the border between Quebec and Maine. It protects the border region in the Appalachian typical Moore, reaching a thickness of more than two meters at any point.

Three sinks are the main focus of the three marshes that are in the sanctuary. It lies to the west of a watercourses furnished, nutrient-rich fen, a fen, peat mosses and grasses predominate in the. In the middle marsh, a lack of inflow nutrient-poor bog or fen, where low stocks of a few black spruce live that reach 1.5 to 3 m Height. Here the peat mosses are represented reichthaltig and diverse. The eastern Moor, near the border with the United States is extremely moist. There also live sphagnum moss, but especially Carex, heather plants and larches. At risk is the Xyris montana from the kind of Xyridaceae, which belongs to the order of Süßgrasartigen ( Poales ).

, And rabbit: An animal species of the island very numerous white-tailed deer to the Urson ( Porc épic French) are observed.

The name of the cross-border protected area refers to the American chemist, mineralogist and geologist Thomas Sterry Hunt (1826-1892) of Norwich, Connecticut, who taught at Canadian universities, Laval and McGill, as well as geology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston. He has published 330 scientific papers and with William Logan published a monograph on the geology of Canada.