Provincial forest tenures / forest management areas of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, Canada (draft)

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A nationally compiled dataset containing provincial Forest Tenures/Forest Management Areas and other administrative areas where rights to establish, grow, harvest or remove timber from a particular area of land has been granted. Each province has different boundary definitions and/or harvesting practices which prevents this dataset from having a standard defined tenure unit for all of Canada (See data sources in metadata).

British Columbia was the only province where tenure boundaries had to be complied from several different sources in order to have a definable tenure unit comparable to other provinces (see NOTES in metadata).
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Global Forest Watch Canada
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4/14/2008
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Title: Provincial forest tenures / forest management areas of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, Canada (draft)
Credits: Global Forest Watch Canada
Publication Date: April, 2008
Other Citation Info: NOTES To create the tenure administrative boundaries for each Province, the following procedure was carried out: 1. All TFL's boundaries were included as one type of Provincial forest tenures. TFL additions or deletions were not included. 2. TSB's were extracted from the Timber Supply Areas (TSA) spatial dataset. Only TSB's that intersected TEN of FTEN cutblocks were selected and extracted. These would make up the second type of tenure units. 3. Any areas (gaps) outside of TSB's or TFL's were filled and any gap polygons that contained cutblocks found by visual inspection were selected and extracted into a separate dataset. These would make up the third type of tenure units. 4. The TFL's, extracted TSB's, and Gap polygons containing cutblocks were then merged into a single dataset. 5. The merged dataset was clipped the the land boundary of the Province of interest and all intersecting Provincial protected areas were removed. 6. The final dataset was visually checked for errors and/or anomolies introduced by the geoprocessing steps. However, this dataset is not without errors and may not represent actual forest tenures by the standard definition.
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GFW Canada
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alberta, manitoba, forest, tenures, canada, forestry, management, saskatchewan, industry, logging
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