f-4.1 - Forest Act

Updated to 1 April 2007

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chapter F-4.1

Forest Act

PRELIMINARY PROVISION

1996, c. 14, s. 1.

The purpose of this Act is to foster recognition of the forest as a common heritage and promote sustainable forest development in order to meet the economic, environmental and social needs of present and future generations while giving proper consideration to other potential uses of the territory.

Sustainable forest development is, more particularly, to the extent provided for by this Act and the regulations, forest development that is conducive to

—the preservation of biological diversity;

—the maintenance and improvement of the condition and productivity of forest ecosystems;

—the conservation of soil and water resources;

—the maintenance of the function of forest ecosystems as a component of global ecological cycles;

—the maintenance of the multiple socioeconomic benefits society derives from forests;

—the giving of proper consideration, in selecting forms of development, to the values and needs expressed by the populations concerned.

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