Metadata information: 1) Data name: bc_tenures_general 2) Short description: British Columbia commercial forest; includes listing of licences and companies that operate within the polygons (Timber Supply Areas and Tree Farm Licenses). Tenures/concession polygons will contain areas restricted to logging and other resources extraction activities by protected areas legislation and by other legislative and policy restrictions. We attempted to include only crown lands and exclude all private lands where the data was available, but some jursiductions may have inadvertently included private lands. 3) Description of fields: Company 1-43: Company name associated with tenure areas Jurisdition: BC Tenuretype: Volume-based (TSA) or Area-based (TFL). TSA: Timber supply area name. Lct 1: (BC)FLNR - Forest Licence non Replacable, (BC)FLR - Forest Licence Replacable, PATSL - Pulpwood Agreement TSL, TSL<10KR less than 10 000 m3 Repacable, TSL>10KR more than 10 000 m3 Replacable. Licence 1-43: Lic_1 & Lic_2: Licence number associated with tenure area, lic_1 ties to holder1, lic_2 ties to holder2... Total 1-43: AAC in cubic meters. 4) Data type and format: Vector digital data, Arc View (*.shp) 5) Creation Date: January 2004 6) Source of information--data origin: This data set has been organized and compiled by Global Forest Watch Canada from Government of British Columbia sources information as follows: - Timber Supply Areas: url from reports dated November 23 2003 - Tree Farm Licenses: url from report dated November 23 2003 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) Publisher: Global Forest Watch Canada 10337 146 Street Edmonton, Alberta T5N 3A3 9) Contact name: Zoran Stanojevic GIS / Remote Sensing Analyst Phone: (780) 422-5989 e-mail: zorans@fanweb.ca [Last updated: January 5/04] ---