Metadata information:

1) Data name: 
	nf_tenures

2) Short description:
	Forest tenures/concessions on Crown land for the island portion of the province of Newfoundland. Includes owner names and polygon classifications (e.g. Crown, Provincial Park, Wilderness Area, etc.); note that many of the polygons are not actually commercial forest (only the commercial tenures are included in the national tenure file). See accompanying spreadsheet for information on allowable annual cuts. 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:
	Ownr_nf_id: An ID number, assigned by NL Forest Service, tied to the company names/land class
	Owner_code: A code corresponding to Ownr_name
	Ownr_name: Ownership for selected polygon (may be a company name, may be more of a class, such as water, or Provincial Park)
	Poly_code: A code/abbreviation corresponding to Ownr_name

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

5) Creation Date: 
	January 2004

6) Source of information--data origin:
	Shape file of tenure of insular Newfoundland obtained from Newfoundland Forest Service.

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:
	CBPP = Corner Brook Pulp & Paper Ltd.

	Newfoundland island is broken down into 10 districts. AAC is calculated for each district every 5 years. The data is only available at the provincial scale because the district AAC calculations may invole multiple tenure types and actual harvest is compiled for Crown vs. company as shown.  
	In the past, AAC has not been established for hardwood and tracking of hardwood harvest has been limited. Therefore, only conifer volumes are currently available. However, a provincial hardwood strategy is being developed.  	The volume harvested from Crown land is allocated through timber sale agreements. Most are 1yr, although some extend for 5 yrs.  
	Corner Brook's holdings are 99 yr licences for public land. Abitibi's holdings include private land, 99yr licence on public lands, and 999 renewable charters on public lands. The volumes provided include all 3 tenure types.  [Source: Ivan Downton, Director of Forest Management (709-637-2284)]

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]