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Words and Terms Requiring Definitions
EXPLANATORY NOTES
General Description
This document lists those words and terms identified to date that require definition so that everyone has a common understanding of
what they mean.
Purpose:
The words and terms included in the list have been identified by the Table or Working Group as requiring definitions to promote a
clear and common understanding of terminology. This list is not intended to be exhaustive, nor necessarily complete.
Consequently, additions can be made as required by the Table.
Please note that some definitions may have and/or require universal application, and some may be dependent upon the specific
section or direction being provided.
Prepared By: the Process Support Team (PST) prepared this document.
Status:
This product is provided for information purposes only, and will be used to assist Table and Working Group
discussions.
Note:
Those definitions described as “MoF Definition” were extracted from the Ministry Internet Site:
http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/PAB/PUBLCTNS/GLOSSARY/GLOSSARY.HTM
Those definitions described as “Guidebook Definition” were extracted from the Biodiversity Guidebook of September 1995
Those definitions described as “Writing Guide Definition” were extracted from the Guide to Writing Resource Objectives and
Strategies - December, 1998, prepared by the Ministry of Forests in co-operation with the Land Use Co-ordination Office and
the Ministry of Environment, Lands and Parks.
The PST, as a starting point for further discussion, developed those definitions described as “PST Suggested”. Some were
extracted from working group or table discussions.
“ Quotations" around entries indicate a phrase, which may not have a formally recognized definition.
Summary of Intent:
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Dictionary definitions for various terms will be used where possible. For those terms not in the dictionary, the PST will provide
a suggested definition (sources: FPC, MoF glossary of terms).
Working definitions would be useful for the working group discussions. In the absence of further clarification from the working
groups on the meanings of words and terms, the definition from the glossary will stand.
If definitions or intents have been developed by the working groups for some words and terms (even if only for the purposes of
allowing the group to move forward), these will stand unless decided otherwise by the working group, and ultimately the Table.
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Access
Suggested definition (submission from Jim Britton): “”physical entry into an area by appropriate
means to accomplish a given task.” The means can include: foot; horseback; non-motorized
vehicle; motorized vehicle (motorcycle; ATV; quad; car 4x4; pickup truck; dump truck; flatbed
truck; low bed truck - trucks typically have a maximum payload of less than 60 tonnes;
snowmobile; snow cat); excavator; bulldozer; drill rig (on wheels, tracks or skids); boat
(unpowered or powered); or aircraft (helicopter or fixed wing plane with wheels, skis or floats).
Adaptive resource
management
Writing Guide definition: “an approach to managing uncertainty that emphasizes learning by
trial. Management policies and practices are adopted, based on best available information, and
monitored to assess effects. Adaptations to those policies and practices are made periodically, on
the basis of monitoring information to incorporate ‘lessons learned’.”
Age Class
CORE definition: “any interval into which the age range of trees, forests, stands or forest types is
divided for classification and use; forest inventories commonly group trees into 20 year age class
groups.”
Agricultural Land
Reserve (ALR)
CORE definition: “land designated and reserved for agricultural purposes under the Agricultural
Land Commission Act. The reserve covers about 5% of the province and includes most of BC’s
highest quality agricultural land. It includes both private and public lands, and covers land being
farmed and land with agricultural potential. Non-agricultural uses on the ALR are regulated.”
Agro-forestry
PST suggested definition: “Agro-forestry is an intensive land management system that optimizes
the benefits from the biological interactions created when trees and/or shrubs are deliberately
combined with crops and/or animals.“
Allowable Annual
Cut (AAC)
CORE definition: “a rate of timber harvesting specified for an area of land by the Chief Forester
pursuant to the Forest Act. The average volume of wood which may be harvested annually under
sustained yield management.”
Alpine
CORE definition: “the zone in a mountain system which lies above the timberline.
Animal Unit Month
(AUM)
CORE definition: “grazing by one mature, 1000-pound cow, with or without unweaned calf at
side, or equivalent (e.g., one two-year old horse or five deer) for one month. Grazing stock rates
are often expressed as AUMs per hectare or hectares per AUM. Grazing tenures for ranch
operations are issued on the basis of AUMs.
Aquatic ecosystem
OKLRMP: MELP: any body of water, such as a stream, lake or wetland, and all organisms and
non-living components within it, functioning as a system.
MoF definition: Aquatic habitat: habitat where a variety of marine or freshwater flora and fauna
occur for long periods throughout the year. Examples include tide pools, estuaries, bogs, ponds
and potential underwater diving areas.
Archaeological sites MoF definition: A location that contains physical evidence of past human activity
and that derives its primary documentary and interpretive information through
archaeological research techniques. These resources are generally associated with both
the pre-contact and post-contact periods in British Columbia. These resources do not
necessarily hold direct associations with living communities.
Area-based tenure
CORE definition: “a class of forest tenure under the Forest Act that is issued by the Ministry of
Forests to a tenure holder over a specific geographic area. The tenure holder has rights of
exclusive access to timber resources within the geographic area in exchange for commitments such
as to manage forest resources and pay resource rents.”
Attributes
CORE definition: “inherent characteristics or qualities.”
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Available land
base
Brad Bennett: A measure of the size of the Timber Harvesting Land Base that is readily available
for timber harvesting. Some of the key tests required to be "Available Land Base".
Avoid
OKLRMP: MOF: ”means to refrain from or prevent the occurrence of. There is no explicit test of
reasonableness or cost. Most things involving forest practices can be avoided if enough money is
spent, but it may not be reasonable.”
avoid where
practicable
OKLRMP: MOF: “to avoid where it is feasible; however, it may not be convenient or the most cost
effective option.”
avoid where
practical
OKLRMP: MOF: “to avoid where it makes sense; where a reasonable person would refrain from
doing something, and where there is a suitable alternative.”
Biodiversity or
Biological Diversity
MoF definition: “the diversity of plants, animals, and other living organisms in all their forms and
levels of organization, including genes, species, ecosystems, and the evolutionary and functional
processes that link them”
Biodiversity
emphasis options
Guidebook definition: A range of three options for emphasizing biodiversity at the landscape level.
Each option is designed to provide a different level of natural biodiversity and a different risk of
losing elements of biodiversity.
Biogeoclimatic zone
Guidebook definition: “a geographic area having similar patterns of energy flow, vegetation, and
soils as a result of a broadly homogenous macro-climate.”
Biophysical
CORE definition: “the biological and physical characteristics of an area.”
Bioregion
CORE definition: “a region defined by physiographic, water-drainage, climate, plant-community,
or other natural characteristics - rather than political or administrative boundaries.
Broad Ecosystem
Units
(Grizzly bear section)
Blue-listed species
Writing Guide definition: “species classified by the Ministry of Environment, Lands and Parks as
sensitive or vulnerable and therefore “at risk”, but not yet endangered or threatened.”
Certainty
Dictionary: “freedom from doubt”, “a well established fact”
Example: “Provide more certainty in the sand and gravel permitting process…”
Clearcutting
Guidebook definition: “the process of removing all trees, large and small, in a stand in one cutting
operation. The previous stand is replaced with an even-aged crop of new trees through planting
and/or natural regeneration (including advance regeneration).”
Coarse woody
debris (CWD)
Guidebook definition:“sound and rotting logs and stumps that provide habitat for plants, animals,
and insects and a source of nutrients for soil development. Material generally greater than 8-10
cm in diameter.”
Community
Watershed
Writing Guide definition: “a drainage basin that is managed to provide a domestic water supply to
a particular community of users. Such areas may be formally designated as community
watersheds pursuant to the Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, which establishes
certain management requirements including planning, public participation in decision-making,
and pre-development terrain stability assessment.”
Compensate
Dictionary: “to make up for or offset; counterbalance”, “to provide with or act as a substitute”,
“to make payment or reparation to reimburse” .
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Writing Guide Definition: “to neutralize the affect of; to make an approximate and usually
counterbalancing payment (syn. offset)”
Connectivity
Dictionary: “serving or tending to connect”, “something that connects”
Writing Guide definition: “a qualitative term describing the degree to which late-successional
ecosystems are linked to form an interconnected network. The degree of interconnectedness and
the characteristics of the links vary in natural landscapes based on topography and natural
disturbance regime. Breakage of these links results in fragmentation”
Comment: inclusion of seasonal & elevational aspects
Consistency
Writing Guide definition: “management objectives in one plan that direct on-the-ground activities
do not materially conflict with management objectives in another plan.”
Consider
Dictionary: “ to think about seriously”, “to regard as”, “to take into account: bear in mind”, “to
show consideration for”
Writing Guide Definition: “to think about with care or sound state (syn study, weigh, reflect)”
Critical wildlife
habitat
MoF definition: “ part or all of a specific place occupied by a wildlife species or a population of
such species and recognized as being essential for the maintenance of the population.”
Culturally
Modified Tree
(CMT)
MoF definition: “A CMT is a tree that has been altered by native people as part of their
traditional use of the forest. Non-native people also have altered trees, and it is sometimes difficult
to determine if an alteration (modification) is of native or non-native origin. There are no reasons
why the term "CMT" could not be applied to a tree altered by non-native people. However, the
term is commonly used to refer to trees modified by native people in the course of traditional tree
utilization.
Deactivation
MoF definition: “Measures taken to stabilize roads and logging trails during periods of inactivity,
including the control of drainage, the removal of sidecast where necessary and the reestablishment of vegetation for permanent deactivation.”
Designated
Environment
Official
FPC Act: A person employed by MELP who is designated by name and title to be a designated
environment official by the minister of that ministry for the purpose of a provision of the Forest
Practices Code Act or the regulations set out in the designation.
Designated
Heritage Trail
MoF definition: “A heritage trail designated under the Heritage Conservation Act.”
Designated Use
Areas
(Land Act Definition needed)
Developed Climax
Sites
Definition provided by Bill Spencer: areas of late successional forest mapped using a methodology
developed by members of the Yalakom Community Council and approved by the Ministry of
Forests for incorporation in a data layer for the Yalakom LRUP. Developed Climax Sites are not
only old in terms of age class but have developed structural and compositional features that
indicate their long-term stability as climax forest at a landscape level. Some of their attributes
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large trees for species and site;
wide variation in tree sizes and spacing;
accumulation of large-size dead standing and fallen trees;
multiple canopy layers, canopy gaps and understory patchiness;
decadence in the form of broken tops or boles and root decay.
CORE definition: “a land use designation under the Ecological Reserve Act that protects
particular areas of land or water from disposition under any resource statute. Ecological reserves
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are designated for scientific research and educational purposes.”
Ecosystem
CORE definition: “a functional unit consisting of all the living organisms (plants, animals and
microbes) in a given area, and all the non-living physical and chemical factors of their
environment, linked together through nutrient cycling and energy flow. An ecosystem can be of
any size - a log, pond, field, forest, or the earth’s biosphere - that functions as a whole unit.
Ecosystems are commonly described according to the major type of vegetation, for example, forest
ecosystem, old-growth ecosystem, or range ecosystem.”
Ecosection
MoF definition: Areas of similar climate, physiography, oceanography, hydrology, vegetation and
wildlife potential.
Encroachment
(Churn Creek Park Plan): Areas where trees are growing on what was pure grassland vegetation
Endangered
Species
See “threatened or endangered species.”
Enhance
Dictionary: to make greater, more attractive, more valuable”
Example: upgrading existing recreation trails or identifying new ones.
“Established”
tourism operators
PST Suggested: Pre-existing uses that can prove by records or anecdotal evidence that they were
well established at the time of LRMP completion or land use zoning designation.
Even-aged
management
Guidebook definition: “a silvicultural system that is designed to regenerate and maintain an evenaged stand. Clearcutting, seed tree and shelterwood are even-aged systems.”
Extirpation
Extirpated: MELP: species no longer in a particular location but found elsewhere
Extirpated: COSEWIC: any indigenous species of fauna or flora no longer existing in Canada but
occurring elsewhere.
Extirpation: Dictionary: root out, destroy (tree, weed, species, etc.).
Free Independent
Recreationalist
(FIR)
A person who basically creates their own recreation holiday without use of commercial guides or
resorts.
Free Independent
Traveler (FIT)
A person who, while using many tourist facilities i.e. hotels, motels, restaurants, golf courses etc.
does so without buying a tour or package plan.
Forage
MoF definition: “grasses, herbs and small shrubs that can be used as feed for livestock or
wildlife”
Forest Ecosystem
Network
Guidebook definition: “a planned landscape zone that serves to maintain or restore the natural
connectivity within a landscape unit. A forest ecosystem network (or FEN) consists of a variety of
fully protected ares, sensitive areas, and old-growth management areas.”
Forest Land
Reserve
Forest Practices
Code (FPC)
Writing Guide definition: legislation (Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act), regulations
made pursuant to that Act, and technical guidebooks, that together govern forest practices in
British Columbia.
Forest Service
Road
MoF definition: a road constructed, modified or maintained by the minister under the
provisions of the Forest Act or declared a Forest Service road. Forest Service roads are
used to provide access to managed forest land.
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Full productivity
Brad Bennett: The maximum volume a site can produce when managed exclusively for timber
production.
General wildlife
measure/strategy
MoF definition(FPC Act, OPR Reg.70 (1) (c )& (d): a management practice, that applies inside
wildlife habitat areas, if…necessary to maintain the identified wildlife within those areas, or a
management practice that …is necessary to maintain a specified habitat.
Goal
Writing Guide definition: “broad statements that describe a future vision with respect to a
particular subject (environmental, social or economic).
Habitat capability
MoF definition: a habitat interpretation for a species which describes the greatest
potential of a habitat to support that species. Habitat potential may not be reflected by thepresent
habitat condition or successional stage.
Habitat
effectiveness
"Usability" (from top of p.75 of Framework - Grizzly Bear section)
Habitat suitability
MoF definition: a habitat interpretation that describes the current potential of a habitat to support
a species. Habitat potential is reflected by the present habitat condition
or successional stages
“harvest design”
?See "Silvicultural systems"
Heritage areas
MoF definition: “Sites of historical, architectural, archaeological, paleontological, scenic
significance to the province.”
Heritage trail
MoF definition: “A trail having cultural significance by reason of established aboriginal use or
use by early immigrants.”
Higher Level Plan
(HLP)
Writing Guide definition: “defined in the Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act as an
objective for:
 a resource management zone
 a landscape unit or sensitive area
 a recreation site, recreation trail, or interpretive forest site
Higher priority
Dictionary: Priority: “precedence, esp. established by order of urgency or importance”,
“something that merits prior attention”, “a recognized right of precedence”
Example: “A higher priority be given to water quality management for…”
Indicator
Writing Guide definition: “a measurement criterion used during plan monitoring to assess the
effectiveness of plan strategies in achieving plan goals and objectives over time. Indicators may
express an expected absolute, numerical outcome (e.g., number of recreation user days), or they
may be more subjective (e.g., “low” impact on recreational experiences”).
In-growth
(Churn Creek Park Plan) In-filling of open Douglas-fir stands
Issues
Writing Guide definition: “ problems and unrealized opportunities respecting land and resources
that a resource planning process will address. Identification and documentation of planning
issues is an important step in resource planning as a basis for assembling relevant planning
information and for developing appropriate resource goals and objectives.”
Land Act Reserve
(Land Act definition needed)
Land and Resource
Management
Planning (LRMP)
Writing Guide definition: “an integrated sub-regional, consensus-based planning process
requiring public participation that produces a Land and Resource Management Plan for review
and approval by government. The plan establishes direction for land use and specifies broad
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resource management objectives and strategies.
Landscape
Guidebook definition: “a watershed or series of similar and interacting watersheds, usually
between 10 000 and 100 000 ha in size.”
Landscape Unit
Guidebook definition: “a planning area, generally up to about 100 000 ha in size, delineated
according to topographic or geographic features such as a watershed or series of watersheds. It
is established by the district manager.”
Writing Guide Definition: “areas of land and water used for long-term planning of resource
management activities. They are important for designing strategies and patterns for landscapelevel biodiversity and for managing other forest resources. Landscape units may be used by the
district manager to establish objectives for any purpose permitted under section 2 of the Forest
Practices Code of British Columbia Act.
Limits of
Acceptable Change
Guidebook definition: “a watershed or series of similar and interacting watersheds, usually
between 10 000 and 100 000 ha in size.”
Livestock
MoF definition: “as defined in the Range Act and Silviculture Planning Regulations means
animals of the genus Bos, horses, mules, asses, sheep and goats, but does not include wildlife
designated under the Wildlife Act, exotic game animals, buffalo, swine or poultry but does include
llamas.”
WG Suggestion: Exclude sheep.
Low impact
tourism
(RMZ Section – definition needed)
Maintain
Dictionary: “to carry on; continue”, “to support by providing means of existence”, “to keep in a
certain state”
Writing Guide definition: “to keep in an existing state; to preserve form failure or decline; to
cause to continue”
Maintain and/or
Enhance
Comment: Use the combination of definitions for “maintain” and “enhance” (above)”
Manage
Dictionary: Manage - “to exert control over”, “direct of control the use over”, “to arrange or
contrive”, “to carry on, to get along”
Writing Guide definition: “to treat with care; to alter by manipulation; to gain influence with or
maintain control over”
Example: “Manage impact of recreational use on ecological integrity”
“manage land on
an ecosystem basis”
OK – see "Ecosystem Management":
OK LRMP: NDT4 WG (GF): a strategy or plan to manage ecosystems to provide for all
associated organisms, as opposed to a strategy or plan for managing individual species
MoF definition: Ecosystem management: the use of an ecological approach to achieve
productive resource management by blending social, physical, economic and biological
needs and values to provide healthy ecosystems
Managed forest
Guidebook definition: “that portion of the landscape outside forest ecosystem networks in which
forestry operations occur.”
Mature seral
Guidebook definition: “forests composed primarily of co-dominant trees, with canopies that vary
vertically, horizontally, or both. Generally refers to trees 80 to 120 years old or greater,
depending on species and site conditions. The age and structure of mature seral vary significantly
by forest type and from one biogeoclimatic zone to another.”
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Mine
Mines Act: “A mine is a place where mechanical disturbance of the ground or any excavation is
made to explore for or to produce” a variety of listed substances.
Mineral
Mineral Tenure Act: “An ore of metal, or a natural substance that can be mined, that is in the
place or position in which it was originally formed or deposited or is in talus rock, and includes
(a) roack and other materials from mine tailings, dumps and previously mined deposits of
minerals, (b) dimension stone, and (c) rock or a natural substance prescribed under section 2 (1),
but does not include (d) coal, petroleum, natural gas, marl, earth, soil, peat, sand or gravel, (e)
rock or natural substance that is used for a construction purpose on land that is not within a
mineral title or group of mineral titles from which the rock or natural substance is mined; (f) rock
or natural substance on private land that is used for construction purpose, or (g) rock or a natural
substance prescribed under section 2(2).”
Mineral industry
Submission from Jim Britton: “Individuals, consultants, and companies involved in any aspect of
mining. this includes, for example, Free Miners and their agents, prospectors, geologists,
geophysicists, geochemists, surveyors, engineers, labourers, tradespeople, contractors.
Mineral land base
Submission from Jim Britton: “The geographic area, including land and water, that is legally
open for exploration and development of geological resources.”
Mineral resources
Submission from Jim Britton: “All geological materials on or below the surface, including, but
not limited to: earth, soil, marl, ash, clay, sand, gravel, rip-rap, rock, stone, talus, aggregate,
limestone, marble, gypsum, slate, fossils, gemstones, placer minerals, metallic minerals, nonmetallic minerals, precious metals (e.g., gold, silver, platinum), base metals (e.g., copper,
molybdenum, lead, zinc), peat, coal, coal bed methane, petroleum, oil shale, bitumen, natural gas,
and geothermal resources, but excluding groundwater.”
(also referred to as
“Geological
Resources” or
“Subsurface
Resources”)
Minimize
Dictionary: “to reduce to the smallest possible amount, size, extent or degree.”
Writing Guide Definition: “to reduce to least quantity assignable, admissible, or possible”
Mining
Submission from Jim Britton: “Mining includes all activities involved in the process of finding
and producing geological resources, including but not limited to: tenure acquisition; financing;
reconnaissance and mineral property exploration; drilling; trenching; property development; bulk
sampling; mine development; environmental baseline studies; engineering studies; construction;
processing; transportation; infrastructure development (e.g., power lines, pipelines, water works,
roads, buildings); mine operation; care and maintenance; closure; reclamation; abandonment;
environmental monitoring and management; etc.
Mitigate
Dictionary: “to make or become less severe or intense”
Writing Guide Definition: “to cause to become less harsh or hostile; to make less. severe or
painful”
Mitigate
Mitigation
Dictionary: “to make or become less severe or intense”
Writing Guide Definition: “resource management practices targeted at improving the
compatibility between resource uses. Mitigation strategies include avoid, minimize, rectify, reduce
or compensate for the impact of one resource on another”
“mosaic of seral
stages”
OK LRMP: MELP: the spatial arrangement of the stages of ecological succession of vegetation
communities (early, mature and late); may be planned through management activities (such as
grazing or timber harvest), or occur through natural disturbances events (such as fire, avalanche
or windthrow).
Dictionary: Mosaic: form in which pictures are produced by joining together minute pieces of
glass, stone, etc. of different colours.
Natural
Dictionary: “ conforming to the usual or ordinary course of nature”, “free from pretension or
artificiality”
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Examples: “”natural setting”, “naturally appearing”
“natural
disturbance
regime”
MoF definition: the historic patterns (frequency and extent) of fire, insects, wind,
“natural range”
WG Suggestion: “including current and former range”
Net Effective Land
Base (NELB)-
Brad Bennett: A measure of the size of the Timber Harvesting Land Base that is unencumbered by
forest management constraints that would prevent a site from reaching full productivity.
“non-essential
secondary roads”
?MOTH definition?
Noxious weed
MoF definition: “any weed so designated by the Weed Control Regulations and identified on a
regional district noxious weed control list”
Objective
Writing Guide definition: “a concise, measurable statement of a desirable future condition for a
resource or resource use which is attainable through management action.”
Old-growth
management areas
(OGMAs)
Guidebook definition: “areas that contain or are managed to replace specific structural oldgrowth attributes, and that are mapped out and treated as special management areas.”
Old seral
Guidebook definition: “old seral is a forest that contains live and dead trees of various sizes,
species, composition, and age class structure. Old seral forests, as part of a slowly changing but
dynamic ecosystem, include climax forests but not sub-climax or mid-seral forests. The age and
structure of old seral varies significantly by forest type and from one biogeoclimatic zone to
another.”
Optimize
Dictionary: “to improve or develop as far a possible”, “to make the most effective use of”
“organized and
maintained trail
system”
FPC Trails and Facilities Guidebook: "Status trail or recreation facility": means a trail or
recreation facility that has undergone statusing and is recorded as such in Forest Service records.
See also statusing.
Paleontology
The scientific study of “fossils”. See Paleontology section.
Park
See definition for Protected Area.
landslides and other natural processes in an area.
Writing Guide definition: defined in the Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act
Operational Planning Regulation as an area established under a higher level plan which contains
or is managed to replace structural old growth attributes.
Patch
Guidebook definition: “a stand of similar-aged forest that differs in age from adjacent patches by
more than 20 years. When used in the design of landscape patterns, the term refers to the size of
either a natural disturbance opening that led to even-aged forests or an opening created by
cutblocks.”
Permanent range
PST Suggested: “areas that produce substantial forage throughout most or all successional stages
(as opposed to transitory range which are areas that eventually lead to closed canopy forest
providing forage only during a brief period following stand-initiating fires or timber harvesting.)”
Planning unit
Guidebook definition: “a sub-unit of the landscape planning unit; a biogeoclimatic subzone within
a drainage, for example.”
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Possible
RAS: ”means within the limits of ability, capacity, or realization. There is no explicit test of
reasonableness or cost. If a task can somehow be carried out, or it is possible to secure the
resources to do it, then it is possible; e.g., for winter logging, deactivating a road as soon as
possible after harvesting would mean deactivating it on the day following cessation of harvesting
activities, even if it required the use of a D-8 cat with ripper to break through the frost.”
Potential Natural
Community (PNC)
Guidebook definition: “the plant community that would be established if succession were allowed
to be completed without further human interference”
Practicable
RAS: ”means feasible or capable of being done or put into practice with the available means.
Reasonableness is a factor, but not an overriding factor as it would be with “practical”. ‘As soon
as practicable’ does not mean that each second needs to be accounted for; but there is an
expectation that any delay is a reasonably prompt time given all the circumstances; e.g., for winter
logging, deactivating a road as soon as practicable after harvesting would mean as soon as the
frost is out of the ground and conditions are suitable to do an adequate job. If a large machine
needs to be brought in, it would be acceptable to wait for the road bans to be lifted, but the timing
should not be delayed for the convenience of fitting into other plans. See “possible”.
Practical (or
“where practical”)
Dictionary: Practical: “capable of being used or put into affect: USEFUL”, designed to serve a
useful purpose”, “having or displaying good judgment: SENSIBLE”
RAS: ”means a normal or common practice, incorporating an element of discretion. There is also
an explicit test of reasonableness, convenience and cost. “Where practical” means where
something can and would normally be carried out; e.g., for winter logging, deactivating a road as
soon as practical after harvesting would mean within the first field season and as soon as the work
can be fit into existing plans. There is also an expectation of cost efficiency, which would allow
some delay until field conditions are well suited to the work to be carried out (e.g., dry) and a
machine is working in the general area or, if not, the work can otherwise be fit into the normal
schedule of tasks. See ‘possible.’”
“precautionary
principle”
UNCED Rio Declaration, 1992: where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of
full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost-effective measures to
prevent environmental degradation.
MELP: where there is a threat of significant reduction or loss of biological diversity, lack of full
scientific certainty should not be used as a reason for postponing measures to avoid, or minimize,
such a threat.
“proper
functioning
condition”
Context: managing ecosystems or riparian areas.
Riparian Guidebook (p. 58): Properly functioning condition is maintained where the effects of
range use on habitat attributes are 1) on average, small or within the range of natural variability
of the habitat unit and 2) are large and beyond the range of natural variability in no more than a
small portion of the habitat unit. If the effects of range management are within the rangew of
natural viability over most of the habitat unit, it is likely that the natural ecological functions of
the unit will be maintained.
Protect
Dictionary: “ to keep from harm, attack, or injury”
Writing Guide definition: “to keep safe, defend or guard”
Comment: Term applied outside of Protected Areas
Protected Area
Guidebook definition: “An area that has protected designation according to provincial or federal
statute. Protected areas are land and freshwater or marine areas set aside to protect the
province’s diverse natural and cultural heritage.”
Writing Guide definition: “a designation of areas of land and water set aside to protect natural
heritage, cultural heritage or recreational values (may include national park, provincial park or
ecological reserve designations.)”
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Protected Area
Strategy (PAS)`
Writing Guide definition: “British Columbia’s strategy to develop and expand the provincial
protected area system to protect 12 per cent of the provincial land base by the year 2000. The
goals of the strategy are to protect viable, representative examples of natural diversity in the
province, and special, natural, recreational and cultural heritage features.”
Range Use Plan
FPC: An operational plan that describes the range and livestock management measures that will
be implemented to ensure that range resources are protected and that the management objectives
for other identified resource values are achieved.
Rare ecosystem
Guidebook definition: “an ecosystem (site series or surrogate) that makes up less than 2% of a
landscape unit and is not common in adacent landscape units.”
“rare element”
Conservation Data Center (CDC): term used to collectively describe rare species, rare plants, rare
plant communities etc.
WG suggestion: “rare wildlife, plant or community”
“rare biological or
physical features”
MELP: very uncommon features that are present on the landscape; examples include rare wildlife,
plants, vegetation associations, and rock formations.
Reasonable
Dictionary: “governed in accordance with reason or sound thinking”, “within the bounds of
common sense:, “not extreme or excessive: FAIR”
Example: “to undertake reasonable efforts to...”
“recreational
placer activities”
MEM suggested: untenured placer mining using hand tools only (pick, shovel and goldpan).
Recreation
Opportunity
Spectrum (ROS)
MoF definition: A mix of outdoor settings based on remoteness, area size, and evidence of
humans, which allows for a variety of recreation activities and experiences. The descriptions used
to classify the settings are on a continuum and are described as: rural, roaded resource, semiprimitive motorized, semi-primitive non-motorized, and primitive.
Recreation sites
and trails
Writing Guide definition: “sites or trails established under the Forest Practices Code of British
Columbia Act (or previously designated under the Forest Act) for the purpose of providing public
recreational experiences in provincial forests.”
MoF definition for Recreation Trail: “a trail and its ancillary facilities developed by the B.C.
Ministry of Forests for recreation or to protect a recreation resource.”
Red-listed species
Writing Guide definition: “threatened or endangered species as identified by the Ministry of
Environment, Lands and Parks. The taxa of the red list are either extirpated, endangered or
threatened, or are being considered for such status.
Regulated hunting
MI: Hunting of wildlife species that is consistent with provincial hunting regulations and licensing.
Reserve
Guidebook definition: “an area of forest land that, by law or policy, is not available for timber
harvesting or production.”
Reserves from Use
(Land Act definition needed)
Restore
Restoration
Dictionary: “to bring back into existence or use”, “to bring back to an original state”
MoF definition: “the return of an ecosystem or habitat to its original community structure, natural
complement of species and natural functions.
Riparian
MoF definition: “An area of land adjacent to a stream, river, lake or wetland that contains
vegetation that, due to the presence of water, is distinctly different from the vegetation of adjacent
upland areas.”
“semi-permanent
Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act: Forest Road Regulations Section 24
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deactivation”
“sensitive cultural
and heritage
features”
MoF definition for Cultural Heritage Resource: “An object, a site or the location of a traditional
societal practice that is of historical, cultural or archaeological significance to the province, a
community or an aboriginal people. Cultural heritage resources include archaeological sites,
structural features, heritage landscape features and traditional use sites
Sensitive area
Writing Guide definition: “small area (up to a maximum of 1,000 ha) established under the
Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act by the district manager to manage or conserve
unique or locally significant forest resources.
Seral stages
Guidebook definition: “the stages of ecological succession of a plant community, for example,
from young stage to old stage; the characteristic sequence of biotic communities that successively
occupy and replace each other, altering in the process some components of the physical
environment over time.”
“Species at risk”
MoF definition:
a) any wildlife species that, in the opinion of the Deputy Minister of Environment, Lands and
Parks, or a person authorized by that deputy minister, is threatened, endangered, sensitive or
vulnerable,
b) any threatened and endangered plants or plant communities identified by the Deputy Minister
of Environment, Lands and Parks, or any person authorized by that deputy minister, as requiring
protection and
c) regionally important wildlife as determined by the Deputy Minister of Environment, Lands and
Parks or a person authorized by that deputy minister.
Silvicultural
systems
Guidebook definition: “a planned cycle of activities by which a forest stand, or group of trees, is
harvested, regenerated, and tended over time. Silvicultural systems used in British Columbia
include clearcutting, seed tree, shelterwood, and selection. Each name reflects the type of stand
structure created by harvesting.”
Site series
MoF definition (adapted from Lloyd): the set of landscape positions within a subzone or variant
that are capable of producing a single plant association at climax.
Stand level
Guidebook definition: “the level of forest management at which a relatively homogenous land unit
can be managed under a single prescription, or set of treatments, to meet well-defined objectives.”
Sustainable
Dictionary: “to keep in existence: MAINTAIN”
MoF definition: “A state or process that can be maintained indefinitely. The principles of
sustainability integrate three closely interlined elements—the environment, the economy and the
social system—into a system that can be maintained in a healthy state indefinitely.”
Threatened or
endangered species
Guidebook definition: “indigenous species that are either threatened or endangered, and
identified as “red listed” by the Ministry of Environment, Lands and Parks.”
Timber Harvesting
Land Base (THLB)
MoF definition: the total area of a management unit considered to contribute to, and be available
for, long-term timber supply. The harvesting land base is defining by reducing the land base
according to specified management assumptions.
Timber of an age
class and type that
is consistent with
the TSA Timber
Supply Review
Brad Bennett: Free of social/political constraints or some type of interference that would prevent
"free" harvesting access. Can be economically accessed under normal market conditions.
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Timber Supply
Area
MoF definition: an area defined by an established pattern of wood flow from
Management units to the primary timber-using industries.
“tourism
infrastructure”
PST Suggested: “built and maintained features such as trails, airports, lodges, hotels, marinas,
etc., that are used by tourists.”
Traditional use
Traditional Use Study Guidelines, December, 1996: "any geographically defined site (on land or
water) used traditionally by one or more groups of people for some type of activity. These sites
may lack the physical evidence of human-made artifacts or structures, yet maintain cultural
significance to a living community of people." This definition is further refined by: "'Traditional'
in this context refers to those beliefs, customs, and practices pertaining to land use of a living
community of people that have been passed down through the generations."
Transitory range
PST Suggested: “areas that eventually lead to a closed canopy forest providing forage only
during a brief period following stand-initiating fires or timber harvesting.”
Does this not refer to an area used by cattle on a temporary basis?
Unregulated
hunting
MI: Hunting of wildlife species without a license (e.g. poaching) or hunting that is not sanctioned
by government.
Viable population
Guidebook definition: “a self-sustaining population with a high probability of survival despite the
foreseeable effects of demographic, environmental and genetic stochasticity and of natural
catastrophes.”
Visual Quality
Objective (VQO)
Writing Guide definition: “ a resource management objective established by the district manager
or contained in a higher level plan that reflects the desired level of visual quality based on the
physical characteristics and social concern for the area. Five categories of VQOs are commonly
recognized: preservation, retention, partial retention, modification, and maximum modification.”
Wilderness
MoF definition: “An area of land generally greater than 1000 ha that predominantly retains
natural character and on which the impact of man is transitory and, in the long run, substantially
unnoticeable.”
“wild fish stocks”
WG Suggestion: “Indigenous and non-native but are naturally occurring (e.g. transplanted brook
trout which are reproducing and maintaining a population(”
Wildlife Habitat
Area
MoF definition: units of habitat recommended for the maintenance, enhancement,
or restoration of red-listed wildlife, threatened, and endangered habitats, and those
species identified as being regionally important.
Wildlife tree
Guidebook definition: “a standing live or dead tree with special characteristics that provide
valuable habitat for the conservation or enhancement of wildlife. Characteristics include large
diameter and height for the site, current use by wildlife, declining or dead condition, value as a
species, valuable location, and relative scarcity.”
Wildlife tree patch
Guidebook definition: “an area specifically identified for the retention and recruitment of suitable
wildlife trees. It can contain a single wildlife tree or many. A wildlife tree patch is synonymous
with a group reserve.”
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