{"id":125358,"date":"2022-11-04T12:39:31","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T16:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=125358"},"modified":"2022-11-04T12:39:31","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T16:39:31","slug":"a-joint-effort-to-recognize-and-protect-quebecs-monteregian-hills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/a-joint-effort-to-recognize-and-protect-quebecs-monteregian-hills\/","title":{"rendered":"A joint effort to recognize and protect Quebec\u2019s Monteregian Hills"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Monteregian Hills is an ecologically valuable chain of ten hills that extend from the municipality of Oka in the Laurentians and encompasses 25 municipalities up to Notre-Dame-des-Bois in the Eastern Townships, this includes Brome, Shefford, and M\u00e9gantic.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Since the spring of 2022, the MRC of Brome-Missisquoi has been collaborating with the Communaut\u00e9 m\u00e9tropolitaine de Montr\u00e9al (CMM) whom recently adopted an action plan for the recognition and protection of the Monteregian Hills, which includes Bromont\u2019s Mont Brome.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The action plan was officially approved by the executive committee of the CMM in September, and now the MRC is committed to doing its part by incorporating the regional actions identified in such plan as a part of their own \u201cRegional Plan for Natural Environments\u201d and its revised \u201cLand-Use Development Plan\u201d to protect Mont Brome and the Monteregian Hills.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cEach (hill) are large continuous forests that constitute cores of biodiversity amongst agricultural, rural, and urban landscapes. They are natural and structural heritage because they really dominate the landscape,\u201d said Val\u00e9rie-Anne Bachand, coordinator of land management for the MRC Brome-Missisquoi, speaking on the importance of the Monteregian Hills.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Bachand explained that the CMM action plan is a three year plan that includes 15 steps and four objectives.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe first is to adapt and organize planning tools. The second is establishing and perpetuating the recognition and the protection of the hills, ensure better protection of areas of interest, and develop a sense of pride and mobilize stakeholders. Those four objectives and 15 actions are consistent with what the MRC is doing right now,\u201d she highlighted.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Bachand noted that the MRC is working on its \u201cRegional Plan for Natural Environments\u201d to ensure \u201csustainable development into the future by integrating conservation of natural environments into its land use planning.\u201d<\/p>\n

The MRC will follow the 15 steps identified by the CMM action plan to ensure its success, including taking part in a status committee to define the appropriate status of the hill,\u00a0 <\/span>encourage good practices and that the planning and regulation tools reduce pressure on the hills, and working with conservation committees, organizations, municipalities and all stakeholders concerned.<\/p>\n

\u201cCertain majors in the plan involve the collaboration of the municipalities and the MRCs concerned with the Monteregian Hills, including us in Brome-Missisquoi with Mont Brome. (\u2026) We are invited to identify the Mont\u00e9r\u00e9giennes and their perimeters as important sectors comprising particular characteristics and we are invited to include these specifications in our \u201cRegional Development Plan,\u201d explained Bachand. \u201c(\u2026) This is a great opportunity to integrate the protection of Mont Brome in those planning tools.\u201d<\/p>\n

While important for the MRC to protect Mont Brome, Bachand emphasized that the Monteregian Hills need to be evaluated in their entirety.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt is also important to protect the wildlife corridor between Mont Brome and Mont Shefford and to protect all corridors in Brome-Missisquoi. We are working to protect the natural network,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

For more information on the Monteregian Hills<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

For more information on the MRC\u2019s \u201cRegional Plan for Natural Environments.\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

For more information on the MRC\u2019s \u201cLand-Use Development Plan.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Listen to the full interview below:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Monteregian Hills is an ecologically valuable chain of ten hills that extend from the municipality of Oka in the Laurentians and encompasses 25 municipalities up to Notre-Dame-des-Bois in the Eastern Townships, this includes Brome, Shefford, and M\u00e9gantic.\u00a0 Since the spring of 2022, the MRC of Brome-Missisquoi has been collaborating with the Communaut\u00e9 m\u00e9tropolitaine de…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":113,"featured_media":125362,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,222],"tags":[18463,20400,698,20399,20404,20405,15514,20402,20403,20401],"radio":[246],"origine":[274,259,260],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125358"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/113"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125364,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125358\/revisions\/125364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125358"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=125358"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=125358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}