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The public forest path, a tool for education

Abstract

When I arrived in Mauricie in 1977, I had the unpleasant surprise to discover several forest paths at the beginning of which a poster with a clear message was drawn: no access, private route, defence of entry. Fortunately, the Mauricie National Park was barely starting to open its doors; there was therefore hope that the public would finally have access to the forest. Since the ‘de-clubbing’ (early 1980s), roads have been kept and managed as an exclusivity for forestry companies (GenEst, 1988: 107). It was only after the arrival of the controlled exploitation areas (ZECs) that it was possible to move more freely or less dangerously on these forest roads on public land without running the risk of coming face-to-face with a truck of stems, loaded with a block and high-speed rolling (still today, a CB radio had to be equipped with a CB radio to get there). In this brief article, we will go through the fifteen years of transition to a greater openness of the forest to the general public, i.e. multifunctionality and multi-activity, through a case study: the Dorval route in Mauricie. The multipurpose use of forests is possible under conditions of dialogue with users, development of their awareness of the richness of their natural environment, by various methods, such as a newspaper which brings the richness of their environment to discover the richness of their environment, information meetings, and encouragement to take part in joint activities such as bleeding. Over the past 15 years, there has been a shift from dual use (industry and fishing) to multi-use openness. We wondered how to transform a purely utilitarian object, an ordinary forest path, into a more prominent object. In practice, we have moved from a linear phenomenon linking two points to a spatial phenomenon, by raising users’ awareness of the different values of the edges or sides of the path, or even the “outdoors”, i.e. outdoor recreation, observation of nature, protection of certain sites, such as marshalling, and landscaping of the path. The path has shifted from government management to fully associative management.

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