Metadata information:

1) Data name: 
	ab_tenures_general

2) Short description:
	Alberta Forest Management Units (FMUs); includes listing of companies that operate within the FMUs and AAC. 

3) Description of fields:
	GFWC_ID: the FMU code, as per original source map
	Company 1: Company with highest AAC for that FMU
	Company 2: Company with second highest AAC for that FMU
	...etc.
	lic_type: Licence type for compny #1

4) Data type and format: 
	Vector digital data, Arc View (*.shp)

5) Creation Date: 
	January 2004

6) Source of information--data origin:
	Data was digitized and reprojected from: Alberta Environment's Resource Data Division Map: "Forest Management Units, May 08/2003" (Scale 1:1,000,000), "Forest Management Units Changes 2002/2003" , "Forest Management Agreements Curent to July 2002". Company/FMA/AAC information was obtained for June 2003 from the Forest Management Branch, Land & Forest Division, Alberta Sustainable Resource Development.

7) Projection Information:
	Projection: Lambert Conformal Conic
	Units: meters 
	Spheroid: Clarke 1866
	Central Meridian: -95 degrees
	Reference Latitude: 49 degrees
	Standard Parallel 1: 77 degrees
	Standard Parallel 2: 49 degrees
	False Easting: 0 m
	False Northing: 0 m

8) Other information:
	In the spreadsheet:	
	AAC units are cubic metres (m^3)	
	Deciduous Timber Allocation (DTA) - a quota of deciduous timber
	Forest Management Agreement (FMA) - a renewable 20 year agreement between the government and a company that grants the company the rights and obligations to manage, grow, and harvest timber on a specific area on a sustained yield basis. 
	Forest Management Unit (FMU) - a defined area of forest land located in the Green Area and designated by the government to be managed.
	Miscellaneous Timber Use (MTU) - an area managed by the government and reserved to provide timber for operators who harvest small volumes of timber each year.
	Quota - the right to harvest a share (as a percentage) of the coniferous AAC within a FMU or the right to harvest deciduous timber within a defined area of a FMU.
	(Definitions found @ http://www3.gov.ab.ca/srd/forests/fmd/directives/chrgable.html)

9) Publisher:
	Global Forest Watch Canada
	10337 146 Street 
	Edmonton, Alberta
	T5N 3A3

10) Contact name:	
	Zoran Stanojevic
	GIS / Remote Sensing Analyst
	Phone: (780) 422-5989
	e-mail: zorans@fanweb.ca

[Last updated: January 5/04]