A day of the cabours to better protect them

The Kamouraska Cabourons Society brought together around twenty partners for a hike of interpretation of the cabourons on Tuesday afternoon. Similarly, to promote the conservation, the preservation and the development of these rocky formations which rise in the plain of Kamouraska.

The non -profit organization thus benefits from the week of theExpo Jean Gladuin Saint-Germain-de-Kamouraska. Furthermore, highlighting the work of the painter Jean Gladu, who aroused the Germinois to the beauty of their landscapes and the cabourons, since the 1990s.

This is an opportunity to make the cabours known more to those. Moreover, who will follow us today. Similarly, We hope that this knowledge will make a snowball so that we can respect them. Furthermore, the cabours in their integrity and their great value at the day cabours better protect them level of biodiversity.

This day is also an opportunity to initiate a conservation plan for the cabourons in Kamouraska.

One of the tools we have to protect nature is knowledge. Similarly, as the famous Maxime says: “We like what we know and we protect what we like.” So the first step will be to improve our knowledge. For example, share themexplains Gaby Dupont, project manager in coastal circles for Horizon-Nature Bas-Saint-Laurent.

We will share this knowledge with the owners, with the MRC [de Kamouraska] Also. For example, It will allow us to develop more suitable conservation strategies according to what we will find as a natural. However, interesthe adds.

The presence of gray pines that have adapted their reproductive strategies to the cabourons is already known. documented, but it remains a lot to discover, according to the project manager.

Day cabours better protect them

Map to better protect – Day cabours better protect them

While the granting of mining claims has struck the imagination. united citizens and elected officials around the protection of cabrons in January 2024, and even if Quebec has since suspended the granting of mining titles in the sector until December of the same year, elected officials note that the regulations to protect the integrity of day cabours better protect them the cabrons is almost nonexistent.

At the Kamouraska MRC. since the fall of 2025, we first established a definition for the cabourons, which is crucial to succeed in mapping them, and a first step to protect them.

Before starting the inventory of the cabourons. the MRC added two criteria, an relief of more than 20 meters in height, more than 30 meters in height, or located less than 500 meters from a panoramic corridor or a country road identified with the MRC development scheme.

We would have 74 hills of 20 meters. more which correspond to this census, or 37 which would be 30 meters in height, practically all in private landsays Yann Franc-Girard, director of the service of the development of the development of the territory at the Kamouraska day cabours better protect them MRC.

Building regulations

Yann Franc-Girard explains that only 4 % of cabrons are the property of public or institutional organizations.

According to him. now that there is a cartography of the cabourons, the MRC Can start to consult with the owners to arrive at well -adjusted, neither too restrictive nor too light regulations.

We do not want to arrive with a regulation from the top of the MRC which. will come to winhe underlines.

Since fall. the MRC Integrated urban planning regulations with a precautionary margin at the foot of the cabourons. He mentions that certain municipalities have chosen to integrate a 15 meters away from the foot of a cabouron.

This is a first step. All municipalities did not integrate it. it was not always possible, it was killing the right to build certain people, we could not necessarily apply it everywhere, but those who could do so have integrated it into their regulationsexplains Mr. Franc-Girard.

He indicates that the MRC Also works on a regional regulation on the private forest. in order to limit the deforestation possibilities on the top of the cabourons.

As part of the revision of the development plan planned for 2027, the MRC Also dream of integrating a day cabours better protect them conservation area. It will be part of the consultation that we will lead with certain owners. We will go there little by little, step by step, to expand it to othersindicates the Americaist.

Nominate

For its part. the Société des Cabourons is preparing a citizen consultation for the fall, in order to appoint the cabourons, because many have no name.

If we think for example of the first attachment behavior that we have with the child we give birth to. it is really to give him a name. And when you come into contact with someone. to know your name, it allows you to establish contactexplains Jacinthe Thiboutot, psychologist and president of the Société des Cabourons.

The name is also a vector of historyadds Daniel Montambeault.

The Société des Cabourons offers a chat entitled I’m Cabouron! Friday at 3 p.m. in the municipal hall of Saint-Germain-de-Kamouraska as part of theExpo Jean Gladu.