{"id":1807,"date":"2022-12-14T09:26:20","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T09:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.bosathemes.com\/bosa\/charity-fundraiser\/?page_id=104"},"modified":"2025-05-16T15:21:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T20:21:32","slug":"histoire","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.foretlablanche.org\/en\/histoire\/","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In the 1970s, the Quebec government, recognizing that the province's population was becoming increasingly urbanized, took steps to raise awareness of Quebec's forests. The Ministry of Natural Resources, responsible for this initiative, decided to set up a network of forest education centres, or \"Centres \u00e9ducatifs forestiers (CEF)\" in French, with the mission of promoting the understanding, appreciation and education of forest conservation in every region of Quebec. In the Outaouais region, the For\u00eat-la-Blanche area was chosen in 1979 as the site for the Forest Education Centre for the Outaouais region, or \"Centre \u00e9ducatif forestier de l'Outaouais (CEFO)\", as it had been subject to very little human or natural disturbance over the years.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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A drop in visitor levels in the early 1990s led the Quebec government to close the CEF network. From 1995 to 1998, the CEFO was abandoned and the Ministry of Natural Resources had to come to a decision about the future of this exceptional territory. Some proposed development projects and recreational activities that could be carried out on the territory, including all-terrain vehicle and snowmobile tours, and the sale of lots for cottages along the lakes.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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In 1998, a group of concerned citizens got together to form the non-profit organization \u201cFriends of CEFO\u201d (now Friends of For\u00eat-la-Blanche). The organization's primary mission is to safeguard the ecological integrity of the CEFO territory. The Friends joined forces with several provincial and national groups, including Nature Qu\u00e9bec and the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, to protect the CEFO territory from proposed development projects. At the same time, the Friends reopened the interpretation centre and began restoring all the interpretive trails, which had been abandoned for several years.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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In 2000, the Friends of For\u00eat-la-Blanche discussed their vision of establishing a protected area on the entire CEFO territory with representatives of the Minist\u00e8re de l\u2019Environnement. The Friends opted for the status of \"ecological reserve\" for the entire territory, on the grounds that this was the only protection status available in Quebec that would ensure no industrial or recreational development could take place. However, the organization wished to keep the existing trails so that the CEFO's original vocation of forest education and awareness could be maintained.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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On October 8th, 2003, following the publication of a decree in the \"Gazette Officielle du Qu\u00e9bec\", the entire territory of the former CEFO became the \"For\u00eat-la-Blanche Ecological Reserve\". This became Quebec's 69th ecological reserve, the largest in the southern part of the province, and one of the only reserves open to the public. The Friends signed a memorandum of understanding with the Minist\u00e8re de l'Environnement (now the Minist\u00e8re de l'Environnement, de la Lutte contre les changements climatiques, de la Faune et des Parcs or MELCCFP) to manage the educational program on the territory of the ecological reserve. The organization became the manager of on-site activities (development of educational programs, trail maintenance, promotion, financing, etc.).<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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In 2006, discussions began with the MELCCFP and the municipality of Mayo to involve the municipality more actively in the management of the centre, in exchange for the use of a portion of the building for community purposes (municipal library, meeting rooms, etc.). In 2008, the Minist\u00e8re agreed to renovate the interpretation centre. In 2009, the Friends of For\u00eat-la-Blanche signed a new tripartite agreement with the MELCCFP and the Municipality of Mayo for the management of the interpretation centre. This new agreement involved the Municipality of Mayo more actively, with a seat (without voting rights) on the Board of Directors of the Friends of For\u00eat-la-Blanche. In 2010, the MELCCFP carried out renovations to the interpretation centre.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Following the awarding of a grant from the Minist\u00e8re de l'Environnement, de la Lutte contre les changements climatiques, de la Faune et des Parcs (MELCCFP), the Friends of For\u00eat-la-Blanche are now able to open the interpretation centre every day of the week. Visitors can benefit from the staff's expertise and advice on the various trails and interesting sites to discover. <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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En 2023, on a c\u00e9l\u00e9br\u00e9 le 20e anniversaire de la constitution de la r\u00e9serve \u00e9cologique de la For\u00eat-la-Blanche. La r\u00e9serve \u00e9cologique est particuli\u00e8rement significative pour la r\u00e9gion de l\u2019Outaouais parce qu\u2019elle est le r\u00e9sultat d\u2019un important mouvement citoyen qui s\u2019est \u00e9lev\u00e9 pour la protection d\u2019un des derniers exemples repr\u00e9sentatifs de la for\u00eat primitive du sud-ouest qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois, et qu’elle est l\u2019une quatre seules r\u00e9serves \u00e9cologiques au Qu\u00e9bec (sur 72) accessibles au grand public, gr\u00e2ce au travail b\u00e9n\u00e9vole des Amis de la For\u00eat-la-Blanche.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Histoire 1979 Les d\u00e9buts Au cours des ann\u00e9es 1970, le gouvernement du Qu\u00e9bec, reconnaissant le fait que la population de la province devient de plus en plus urbaine, entreprend une d\u00e9marche de sensibilisation \u00e0 la for\u00eat qu\u00e9b\u00e9coise. Le Minist\u00e8re des Ressources naturelles, responsable de cette d\u00e9marche, d\u00e9cide de mettre sur pied un r\u00e9seau de \u00ab Centres \u00e9ducatifs forestiers \u00bb (CEF) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1807","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foretlablanche.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foretlablanche.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foretlablanche.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foretlablanche.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foretlablanche.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1807"}],"version-history":[{"count":75,"href":"https:\/\/www.foretlablanche.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4187,"href":"https:\/\/www.foretlablanche.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1807\/revisions\/4187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foretlablanche.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}