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Mount Gosford is a mountain located in southern
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,
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, at the border with
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. It lies entirely in
Saint-Augustin-de-Woburn Saint-Augustin-de-Woburn, known locally as Woburn, is a parish municipality in Le Granit Regional County Municipality in the Estrie region of Quebec, Canada. The population is 695 as of the Canada 2011 Census. A parish municipality is the territo ...
in
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and is part of the White Mountains of the
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. It is named after Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford,
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of
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from 1835 to 1837. It is the 21st highest peak in Quebec and 4th in Southern Quebec. It is made of
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and
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dating from the
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era.


Environmental protection

Since 1978, Mount Gosford is included in "ZEC Louise-Gosford", a controlled harvesting zone open to the public. Recently, the areas at more than 700 metres of altitude were designated
Important Bird Areas An Important Bird and Biodiversity Area (IBA) is an area identified using an internationally agreed set of criteria as being globally important for the conservation of bird populations. IBA was developed and sites are identified by BirdLife Int ...
due to the presence
Bicknell's thrush Bicknell's thrush (''Catharus bicknelli'') is a medium-sized thrush, at and . One of North America's rarest and most localized songbirds, it breeds on coniferous mountain tops and disturbed habitats of northeastern North America. While very simi ...
es, an endemic species living in mountain peaks of northeast
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. In 2009, Quebec's Ministry of Natural Resources and Wildlife set aside part of the Mount Gosford to create an
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. The same year, about 76 hectares of the mountain was renamed ''forêt rare du Mont-Gosford'' (Mount Gosford's Rare Forest) and declared an exceptional forest ecosystem. The designation protects mountain woodsorrels, considered rare at this altitude.


See also

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Quebec 1000 meter peaks This list of Quebec's 1000-meter peaks is a list of the summits in Quebec higher than , used in the mountaineering sport of peak bagging. Ranked peaks have of Topographic prominence#Calculations and mathematics, clean prominence. (Includes map o ...


References


External links

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Official website of the park
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Official website of the border trails
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