Gatineau WatershedIn the Gatineau River watershed, the forest is made up of hardwoods in the south and mixed wood in the center. Softwood trees are mostly located more in the north. The age of the forests vary largely, due to earlier harvesting. The trees of the Gatineau River Valley forests range in age from 20 and 60 years of age.

The forest belts (the great majority being crown land) are the most dominate landuse covering more than 80% of the watershed, concentrated mostly in the MRCs Vallée-de-la-Gatineau and Antoine-Labelle. The commercial volume gross of the public forest territory consists of 68% of hardwoods (hardwoods and aspen/poplar) and of 32% of softwoods (fir, spruce, gray pine and tamarack).

Adapted from COMGA's Summary of the Gatineau River Watershed Portrait