Mount Gosford is a mountain located in southern
Quebec,
Canada, at the border with
Maine. 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 terri ...
in
Estrie and is part of the
White Mountains of the
Appalachians. It is named after
Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford,
governor general of
British North America from 1835 to 1835. It is the 21st highest peak in Quebec and 4th in Southern Quebec.
It is made of
gneiss and
granulite dating from the
Precambrian
The Precambrian (or Pre-Cambrian, sometimes abbreviated pꞒ, or Cryptozoic) is the earliest part of Earth's history, set before the current Phanerozoic Eon. The Precambrian is so named because it preceded the Cambrian, the first period of the ...
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 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 breeders, it inhabits coniferous mountain tops and disturbed habitats of the Northeast. While very similar in appeara ...
es, an endemic species living in mountain peaks of northeast
North America
North America is a continent in the Northern Hemisphere and almost entirely within the Western Hemisphere. It is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South America and the Car ...
.
In 2009, Quebec's
Ministry of Natural Resources and Wildlife set aside part of the Mount Gosford to create an
ecological reserve
A nature reserve (also known as a wildlife refuge, wildlife sanctuary, biosphere reserve or bioreserve, natural or nature preserve, or nature conservation area) is a protected area of importance for flora, fauna, or features of geological or o ...
. 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
*
Quebec 1000 meter peaks
This list of Quebec's 1000-meter peaks is a list of the highest summits in Quebec, used in the mountaineering sport of peak bagging. Ranked peaks have of clean prominence.
(Includes map of peaks.)
See also
* Northeast 111 4000-footers
** New E ...
References
External links
*
Official website of the park*
Official website of the border trails
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Mount Gosford
Mount Gosford is a mountain located in southern Quebec, Canada, at the border with Maine. It lies entirely in Saint-Augustin-de-Woburn, Quebec, Saint-Augustin-de-Woburn in Estrie and is part of the White Mountains (New Hampshire), White Mountains ...
One-thousanders of Quebec
Protected areas of Estrie