Natural resources of Quebec

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Identifikator:: 1796289558

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-181093

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Natural resources of Quebec

Edition:: Rev. ed.

Place of publication:: Ottawa

Publisher:: Natural resources intelligence service

Year of publication:: 1929

Scope:: 132 p; illus., maps

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter IV. Forests

Collection:: Economics Books

38 NATURAL RESOURCES OF QUEBEC are at present difficult of access they form a large reserve that will ulti- mately be utilized. The forests of the temperate zone comprise the second region. They contain the bulk of the valuable merchantable timber for which Quebec is famous, and may be sub-divided into three types, the Laurentian, the St. Lawrence, and the Allegheny. Laurentian Area.—The Laurentian forest area is estimated to con- tain 75,000,000 acres. For a hundred years lumbering has been carried A typical stand of spruce in the lake St. John district, Province of Quebec on in this area. This country, which attracts so many tourists, contains numerous beautiful lakes and rivers well adapted to log driving The principal species are spruce, pine, cedar, tamarack, maple, birch, ash, elm, basswood, and poplar. With the gradual removal of white pine and the spruces, the hardwood species, floatable for short distances, are assum- ng greater importance. It is estimated that only 75 per cert of this area is now capable of vielding merchantable timber o

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