Portrait of forest cover in Quebec

The portrait of forest cover in Québec is an assembly made from the up-to-date ecoforest map of the inventory of southern Quebec and vegetation maps from the northern ecoforest inventory and Northern Quebec. Administrative divisions, forest boundaries and territories where forest management responsibilities and obligations are under the responsibility of the municipal environment are also added. Then, an update is carried out for areas that have a predominant use other than forest, including the road and rail network, energy transmission lines, cultivated land and built environments.

The portrait makes it easy to calculate the rate of land use by forests in the territory of a municipality, an unorganized territory, an indigenous territory, an MRC or an administrative region, then to draw up a summary of some main characteristics of the forest.

Annually, the portrait is reproduced with the most recent version of the data sources and then published on the Data Québec portal in December.This third party metadata element was translated using an automated translation tool (Amazon Translate).

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Last Updated April 17, 2026, 17:27 (UTC)
Created April 17, 2026, 17:27 (UTC)
contact_email inventaires.forestiers@mrnf.gouv.qc.ca
contact_person {"en": "Government and Municipalities of Québec; Government and Municipalities of Québec; Ministère des Ressources naturelles et des Forêts", "fr": "Gouvernement et municipalités du Québec; Gouvernement et municipalités du Québec; Ministère des Ressources naturelles et des Forêts"}
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data_dictionary unknown,unknown,unknown
geographic_scope []
open_canada_collection fgp
open_canada_date_published 2024-12-04 00:00:00
open_canada_keywords {"en-t-fr": ["Forest cover", "DIF", "Forest Inventory Department", "Forest", "Ecoforest inventory", "Government information"], "fr": ["Couvert forestier", "DIF", "Direction inventaires forestiers", "Forêt", "Inventaire écoforestier", "Information gouvernementale"]}
open_canada_subject ["form_descriptors", "nature_and_environment", "science_and_technology"]
sensitivity_level unrestricted
title_fr Portrait du couvert forestier du Québec
update_frequency not_planned