2005
DOI: 10.4000/vertigo.4352
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Les routes forestières au Québec : Les impacts environnementaux, sociaux et économiques

Abstract: Au Québec, le nombre de kilomètres de routes forestières construites chaque année ne cesse d’augmenter. Les facteurs tant écologiques que socio-économiques, liés à cette construction effrénée de routes sont déjà abordés aux États-Unis et dans d’autres provinces canadiennes, mais très peu considérés au Québec. Nous évaluons ici l’ensemble des effets dans un contexte québécois et proposons des pistes de solutions à l’approche utilisée aujourd’hui. Sur le plan écologique, les effets sont principalement la destruc… Show more

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“…First of all, the forest industry constructs a large number and expanse of roads in forested areas. In Canada, there are 68,437 km of permanent primary roads and 15,401 km are permanent forest roads (Bourgeois et al 2005). If secondary and tertiary forest roads were included the number would increase.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…First of all, the forest industry constructs a large number and expanse of roads in forested areas. In Canada, there are 68,437 km of permanent primary roads and 15,401 km are permanent forest roads (Bourgeois et al 2005). If secondary and tertiary forest roads were included the number would increase.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Minimizing the extent of the road network is often considered a priority to mitigate the effects of harvesting on biodiversity, particularly for large carnivores and ungulate species such as the woodland caribou (Bourgeois et al, 2005). This can be done more easily when disturbances like large forest fires are emulated, because in this case the area harvested per km of road is maximized (Andison, 2003).…”
Section: Road Networkmentioning
confidence: 98%
“…With edge effects of up to 120 m (60 m on both sides), more than 10 ha of forest are influenced per 1 km of road. With tens of thousands of kilometer's of forest roads constructed annually [1] the changes in productivity of forest stands are easily on the order of hundreds of thousands of hectares per year. As well as increases in tree height and tree density there is also greater mortality as evidenced by the increase in gap fraction adjacent to roads.…”
Section: How Far Do Effects Extend?mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…As a consequence of the rapid increase in forest management and resource extraction, an increase in the abundance of narrow-linear canopy openings such as roads, powerlines, oil and gas pipelines, etc. can be observed over the past century in forested areas throughout the world [1]. Road networks now criss-cross much of the temperate and boreal forest regions.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%