Logging: a petition to save the mount Kaaikop

QMI agency

Monday, 31 July, 2017 23:36

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SAINTE-LUCIE-DES-LAURENTIDES – A coalition of citizens has launched a petition to oppose logging or authorized by Québec in a century-old forest of the Laurentians.

The department of Forestry, Wildlife and Parks has the intention to allow forest producers to make cuts in the forest of mount Kaaikop and in the surrounding area, on public land, to the east of mont Tremblant. Of the cutting planes must also be filed this fall or next winter. This will be followed by public consultations.

For the protesters, these cuts would be detrimental to the tourism industry, many outdoor enthusiasts enjoying the natural beauty of the region.

The members of the Coalition Mont-Kaiikop also suggest that Quebec is far from having achieved its goal of protecting 17 % of the territory of the province by 2020. “The protected territory of Mount-Kaaikop would be a simple solution to this deficit in order to achieve this national objective laudable. The designation of the protected area, the Mont-Kaaikop would be a concrete gesture and greatly appreciated by the population, which is claiming high and strong over the last four years the protection of this territory,” write the initiators of the petition.

As of Monday evening, 1077 people had signed the petition, which calls for the “permanent protection of the Mont-Kaiikop”.

A previous petition launched in 2013, in the wake of the first struggle conducted by the municipality of Sainte-Lucie-des-Laurentides to prevent logging, had collected approximately 8,000 signatures.