Metadata information:

1) Data name: 
	on_tenures

2) Short description:
	Ontario's commercial forest zone; includes administration/management unit for each polygon as well as the total allocated and harvested coniferous and deciduous timber (cubic metres). 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. See accompanying spreadsheet (ON_AAC_95-99) for summary information on Allowable Annual Cuts (AACs) by management unit for 1995-1999. 
	*Note: Some management units may have multiple shareholder licences; unfortunately, the attribute table only notes one of these shareholders (assumedly, the one with the largest share). 

3) Description of fields:
	Mu_nu		The management unit number
	Mu_name		The management unit name 
	Company		A primar company that operate in the management unit
	Owner		A company owner
	Lic_type		A type of an operating licence
	Company_2	A second company that operated in a management unit
	AAC_softwood	Anual available cut for softwood (m3/year)
	AAC_hardwood	Anual available cut for hardwood (m3/year)
*Note: Some Management units contain more than one polygon and the AAC includes volume from all polygons that belong to the same management units.

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

5) Creation Date: 
	January 2004

6) Source of information--data origin:
	Ontario government data set, Ministry of Natural Resources, and industry: Tembec Group, ...

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]