 The Laval River Rare Forest is a young stand of black spruce ("Picea mariana") and red pine ("Pinus resinosa").The presence of red pine is unusual, since it is far from its normal range, which in Quebec is mainly the deciduous forest area to the west of the Gatineau River where the climate is milder and fires are more common.Red pines are hardly ever found on the Côte-Nord, and this stand would have needed repeated fires to have survived.