Division I – Harvest and optimum use of ligneous matter
Section 152
In a piling area, a forest operations zone having an area less than 4 ha or in any portion in a single block of 4 ha or more included in a forest operations zone, the volume of usable ligneous matter left on the ground or not harvested that exceeds 3.5 m3/ha in the case of a total cutting or that exceeds 1 m3/ha in the case of a partial cutting must be recovered on each of those areas before 1 September following the harvest year.
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Additional information
- For ligneous matter to be considered recovered, it must be transported out of the forest.In some specific situations, such as for the recovery of timber harvested in an area or portion of an area inaccessible from the time work was completed until September 1 following the harvest year, a request for an exemption to the Regulation under section 40 of the Sustainable Forest Development Act can be filed with the management unit in charge
to determine a new time frame to recover the volumes left in the forest. However, the following conditions must be met
- Work must be completed in time periods consistent with previously agreed-upon harmonization measures;
- The maximum deadline allowed is 31 March following the harvest year;
- Recipients of volumes left in the woods must be notified of the new deadline;
- Any other conditions that address regional issues identified by the management unit in charge .
Where the silvicultural prescription associated with the treatment to be carried out provides for a different standard of recovery than that provided for in the first paragraph for biodiversity conservation reasons, the threshold above which the volume of usable ligneous matter left on the soil or not harvested must be recovered is the one set out in the silvicultural prescription.
For the purposes of this section, the volumes of commercial species that may be left on the cutting area according to the Minister’s directions and deadwood and rejected wood are excluded from the volume of usable ligneous matter.
Deadwood is quality m wood.
Rejected wood is a log or part of a log of a merchantable size that contains such a quantity of defects that it no longer has any value for the forest product industry, except for the development of forest biomass. Logs or parts of logs that meet the criteria provided for in Schedule 13 are deemed to have no value.
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Objective
- To avoid wasting wood
