Glossary of Resource Planning Terms

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Habitat: the place where an organism lives and/or the conditions of that environment including the soil, vegetation, water and food.

Habitat management: management of the forest to create environments which provide habitats that meet the needs of particular organisms.

Habitat rarity (scarcity, uniqueness): refers to the relative abundance of the habitat type (target species or species groups).

Hahuulhi: is the traditional Nuu-Chah-Nulth system of land and resource management centering around ownership and stewardship of specific sites and their resources by hereditary chiefs. Within this system the lands, waterways, shorelines, and offshore sites, except for relatively remote areas far inland, fall under this pattern of ownership, control and resource use.

Healthy ecosystem: an ecosystem in which structure and function allows for the maintenance of ecosystem integrity.

Heritage landscape feature: any discrete aggregation of human-made features that reside in conjunction with each other, and the arrangement of these features has one or both of the following attributes:

it is representative of distinctive cultural processes in the development or use of land over time; and,
it is an area perceived as an ensemble of culturally derived landscape features such as a townscape, landscape or waterscape that exhibits some interface between humans and the environment (see cultural heritage resource).

Heritage trail: a trail having cultural significance by reason of established aboriginal use or use by early immigrants (see also cultural heritage resource).

Higher level plan: defined in the Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act as

a) a plan formulated pursuant to section 4(c) of the Ministry of Forests Act and designated as a higher level plan by the district manager in accordance with direction from the chief forester,

b) a management plan designated as a higher level plan by the chief forester for tree farm licences and by the regional manager for other agreements under the Forest Act,

c) an objective for a resource management zone,

d) an objective for a landscape unit or sensitive area,

e) an objective for a recreation site, recreation trail or interpretive forest site, and

f) a plan or agreement declared to be a higher level plan by

i) the ministers or

ii) the Lieutenant Governor in Council under this or any other Act.