Conclusive results
La Mauricie National Park
Results of 15 years of restoration efforts
- More than 100,000 logs removed from 20 lakes
- 44.2 km of shoreline and 2.5 km of linear waterways cleaned
- 20 splash dams dismantled
- 14 lakes restored for brook trout habitats
- 52,600 fry raised in fish farms and returned to the water
- 4,160 brook trout relocated
Other benefits
- 10 brook trout populations restored
- Nearly 20% of La Mauricie National Park’s lakes restored
- 366 forms filled out by the public for the Counting for Loon Protection program, a citizen science project to contribute to the loon’s inventory
- Several beaches dewatered following the splash dam dismantling at Caribou, Dauphinais, Bouchard, Reid, Isaïe, and Waber Lakes and Cobb Bay
- Nearly half the logs removed from the lakes reused for creating interpretation material, producing works of art, and selling in batches to the public
- More than 10,000 people informed about environmental protection through educational activities
Photo gallery
View of the Isaïe Lake outlet before and after the dam was dismantled
View of the Reid Lake outlet before and after the dam was dismantled
View of the Dauphinais Lake outlet before and after the dam was dismantled
Two Parks Canada employees remove a log from the bottom of a lake
Parks Canada employees remove logs accumulated before the Houle Lake dam
Fry are transported inside a transportation bag before being reintroduced into a lake
Inventory of restoration efforts
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