Do not pick plants or mushrooms, or damage trees in nature parks

Picking a flower is the same as destroying its means of reproduction. When a lot of people pick flowers from the same site, it soon becomes barren and loses its attractiveness.

Picking plants such as wild garlic, fiddleheads and wild ginger can endanger their survival. Wild garlic, for example, requires eight or nine years to grow to maturity and produce seeds. By picking it and removing the bulb, you are killing it. Wild garlic and ginger, with their edible roots, have all but disappeared in Québec as a result of excessive harvesting for commercial purposes. To protect them, the government of Québec has identified these plants as threatened or vulnerable species.

Do not pick plants. Let them grow and reproduce.