Metadata information:

1) Data name:	
	sk_tenures

2) Short description:	
	Saskatchewan's commercial forest zones; includes information on the management of each zone, i.e. company Forest Management Agreement (FMA) or Crown management. 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.
	Many technical and political issues mean this data is subject to change, and this version may quickly be out-of-date. To ensure awareness of any problems or potential inaccuracies and to acquire updated data, please contact Saskatchewan Environment.

3) Field Description:
	Company_1: Company/Management for selected zone
	Lic_type: License type for Company_1
	Loc_name: Forest district
  	Swdaac: Softwood AAC in cubic meters 
	Hdwaac: Hardwood AAC in cubic meters
	Prodforate: Productiv forest area

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

5) Creation Date: 
	January 2004

6) Source of information--data origin:
	 Data set from Saskatchewan Environment and Resource Management, Forest Ecosystems GIS department, January 2004. 
		
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 5/2004]