[1] Located south of the St. Lawrence River in the Notre Dame Mountains, the Mont Saint-Magloire has an altitude of 917 metres (3,009 ft).

The fauna, meanwhile, is made up of white-tailed deer, river otters, beavers, originals and black bear.

By keeping watch, various natural disturbances destroy the old trees in these conifer stands: windfall, fire or an epidemic of budworm.

[3] In the Mont Saint-Magloire area, the boreal forest is rather restricted to the upper part of the high mountains.

This abundance of dead trees favors certain wildlife species that feed, shelter and protect themselves from predators.

[3] Some ornithologists have identified certain species of birds, very uncommon south of the St. Lawrence, which survive in this old resinous forest, a rarefied habitat if there are logging.

[3] The black-backed woodpecker captures insects by drilling holes in the trunks of senescent or dead conifers.

[1] This toponym was formalized on March 6, 1970 at the Place name bank of the Commission de toponymie du Québec.