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Chapter VI \u2013 Allocation of forest operations and residual forest
\nDivision II – Special provisions applicable to the bioclimatic domains of the sugar bush and the balsam fir forest
\n\u00a73. Block cutting<\/p>\n

Section 139<\/h1>\n

The residual forest of a block cutting must have the following characteristics:<\/p>\n

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  1. have, inside the limit of the block cutting harvest site, an area at least equivalent to the area of the cutting areas of a block cutting;<\/li>\n
  2. have a width of at least 200 m;<\/li>\n
  3. be composed of forest stands 7 m or more in height over at least 80% of its area and forest stands of at least 4 m in the remaining area;<\/li>\n
  4. be composed of stands having a forest cover density greater than 40% over at least 80% of its area and from 25 to 40% over its remaining area. It may also be composed of stands having a forest cover density of 25 to 40% over more than 20% of its area, provided that that proportion is equal to or less than the proportion of the stands with such a density that are located in forests 7 m or more in height of the block cutting harvest site before the operation;<\/li>\n
  5. be composed of forest stands that can produce in commercial species a volume of mature rough merchantable timber of at least 50 m3<\/sup>\/ha or, where they cannot produce such a volume, be composed of forest stands equivalent in composition and in area to those harvested;<\/li>\n
  6. be composed of forest stands belonging in a proportion of at least 20% to the same type of forest cover as those harvested;<\/li>\n
  7. not have been the subject, in the last 10 years of harvesting, of a commercial harvest other than a sylvicultural treatment referred to in the second paragraph of section 142<\/a>.\"\"<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    1<\/h2>\n

    Objectives<\/h4>\n