Following the appointment of the new Cabinet, the Forest Sector now reports to the ministère des Ressources naturelles et des Forêts, while the Wildlife and Parks Sectors report to the ministère de l'Environnement, de la Lutte aux changements climatiques, de la Faune et des Parcs. Adjustments will be made to the website over time.

Larouche, Catherine

Catherine Larouche is a forest engineer, graduate of Université Laval since 2002. She received a Master of Science degree in 2005 and a doctorate in 2009. During that time, she co-led work on the regeneration of Canadian and U.S. cedar with the University of Maine. In 2007, she started as a researcher at the Direction de la recherche forestière (DRF) working on complex-structure stands as well as silviculture and fill planting of resinous stands. From 2015 to 2017, she was acting department head of the Service de la sylviculture et de rendement des forêts, then advisor on strategic operations and special projects. From 2017 to 2021, she served as strategic advisor to the Centre de services partagés du Québec and the ministère de la Sécurité publique, where she worked on Indigenous affairs. Returning to the DRF in 2021, Catherine is now head of the Service du soutien scientifique. She directs the work of the teams in biometrics, dissemination and transfer of knowledge, experimental and teaching forests and research, geomatics, the Herbier du Québec and the laboratory of organic and inorganic chemistry. She also coordinates many facets of the sustainable forest management research program.

Link to Catherine Larouche’s page on ResearchGate

Link to the list of Catherine Larouche’s publications in French

List of publications in English by Larouche, Catherine