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The forest fire map shows forest fires that occurred mainly in the territory of southern Quebec, i.e. the area located south of the territorial limit of attributable forests. This map data makes it possible to improve knowledge about fire regimes and to meet the specific needs of special...

The temporary sample plot is a circular sample unit that covers an area of 400 m2. For each tree, we observe and measure the species, diameter, sunlight, and floor in relation to other trees, as well as the defoliation and the quality of the stems of deciduous trees and certain pines. In...

This product provides information on the geographic position of ambulance meeting point signs in the territory of Bas-Saint-Laurent as well as that of Gaspésie—Îles-de-la-Madeleine. The project of ambulance meeting points in the public forest was launched in the early 2000s. This project made it...

List of active factories with permits consuming more than 2000 cubic meters of unworked woody material, such as roundwood, shavings, sawdust, planers, bark, etc. In addition, category 8 is still included. It is represented by pulp and paper mills that do not require wood processing permits since...

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Under the Regulation Respecting the Mandatory Reporting of Certain Contaminant Emissions into the Atmosphere (RDOECA), the Ministry of the Environment, the Fight against Climate Change, Wildlife and Parks collects data on greenhouse gases (GHGs) emitted by Quebec businesses in particular. Thus,...

The link: Access the data directory is available in the sectionDataset Description Sheets; Additional Information. Forest infrastructure mapping corresponds to the forest territory from which trees have been subtracted for infrastructure purposes, for example to install energy transmission lines,...

IMPORTANT NOTE: The Ministry of Tourism (MTO) has begun the migration of its data to a new tourist information system, the SIT Québec. The operation will take place over several months, during which time this open data set will no longer be updated. However, it will remain available as an archive...

Deposit is the layer of loose material that covers rock. It may have been established during the retreat of the glacier at the end of the last glaciation or by other processes associated with erosion and sedimentation. The nature of the loose deposit is evaluated based on the shape of the land,...

__The link: * Access the data directory is available in the sectionDataset description sheets; Additional information__. The ecoforest inventory north of the northern limit of attributable forests is an extensive inventory that was carried out for specific knowledge acquisition needs. It was...

Permafrost is any soil or rock whose temperature has remained below 0°C for years. In the extreme north of Quebec, it is omnipresent and very thick. At its boreal margin, further south, it appears in the landscape in the form of isolated thin plates, whose thickness is generally less than 10 m....

The ecological classification of Quebec territory consists of mapping and describing ecological units in a system with nine levels of perception between the continental and landscape scales. It presents the diversity of terrestrial ecosystems in all of Quebec taking into account both the...

#Description This database contains the coordinates of observations of fish and invertebrates, which are exotic and invasive, known by the Ministry of the Environment, the Fight against Climate Change, Wildlife and Parks (MELCCFP) in Quebec (MELCCFP) in Quebec as of May 2024. An aquatic invasive...

The food desert is a sector offering poor access to food stores (grocery stores, supermarkets and public markets), i.e. a distribution area (AD) in which residences are located on average more than 1 kilometer from a food store in urban areas and more than 16 kilometers in rural areas, and...

The link: Access the data directory is available in the sectionDataset Description Sheets; Additional Information. The mapping of insect epidemics, windfalls (trees knocked down by the wind) and ice is produced as part of the ecoforestry inventory of southern Quebec in order to maintain an...

From 1986 to 2000, a major ecological inventory program was carried out in the forests of southern Quebec in order to describe the diversity of forest ecosystems. In total, 28,425 ecological observation points (POE) were established on a territory covering 760,000 km2, located between 45° and 53°...

__The link: * Access the data directory is available in the sectionDataset description sheets; Additional information__. The Harvest and other silvicultural interventions mapping is produced as part of the ecoforest inventory of southern Quebec in order to maintain an up-to-date portrait of the...

The deprivation index was designed in the late 1990s in order to measure the deprivation of Quebecers on a small geographic scale. It is used for the purposes of researching and monitoring trends on social inequalities in health, developing policies and programs, allocating resources, and...

The link: Access the data directory is available in the sectionDataset Description Sheets; Additional Information. The mapping of vegetation in Northern Quebec is a component of an extensive inventory carried out to meet knowledge acquisition needs as part of the economic, social and...

The link: Access the data directory is available in the sectionDataset Description Sheets; Additional Information. Surface deposit is the layer of loose material that covers rock. The deposit may have been established during the retreat of the glacier at the end of the last glaciation or by other...