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Range: any land supporting vegetation suitable for wildlife or domestic livestock grazing, including grasslands, woodlands, shrublands and forest lands.

Range development: defined in the Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act as

Range use plan: an operational plan that describes the range and livestock management measures that will be implemented to ensure that range resources are protected and that the management objectives for other identified resource values are achieved.

Recreation: any mental or physical revitalization achieved through the voluntary pursuit of leisure activities. Outdoor recreation is recreation that takes place out-of-doors, and forest recreation takes place in a forest or wildland setting.

Recreation feature: defined in the Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act as a biological, physical, cultural or historic feature that has recreational significance or value.

Rrecreation feature significance: the quality, uniqueness, and availability of a recreation feature as classified in the recreation inventory.

Recreation features inventory: one component of the recreation inventory. The identification, classification, and recording of types and locations of biophysical recreation and cultural features, existing and potential recreation activities, recreation feature significance and feature sensitivity.

Recreation inventory: the identification, classification and recording of the types and locations of amenity resources. It is the umbrella inventory that includes the recreation features inventory, visual landscape inventory and recreation opportunity spectrum inventory, and inventories of rivers, sites, trails, caves and other recreation features.

Recreation opportunity spectrum (ROS): types of recreational experiences, physical settings, structures and services, access, management settings and social settings that, in combination, describe the recreational opportunities in an area. The five ROS classes, based on criteria of remoteness, area size and evidence of human use, are: primitive, semi-primitive non-motorized, semi-primitive motorized, roaded resource land and rural.

Recreation resource: defined in the Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act as: a) a recreation feature, b) a scenic or wilderness feature or setting that has recreational significance or value, or c) a recreation facility.

Recreation site: a site and its ancillary facilities established under Section 6 of the Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act or designated under the Forest Act before the coming into force of the code act and developed

Recreation trail: a trail and its ancillary facilities established under Section 6 of the Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act or designated under the Forest Act before the coming into force of the code act and developed by the Ministry of Forests for recreation or to protect a recreation resource.

Red-listed species: threatened or endangered species identified by the Ministry of Environment, Lands and Parks. The taxa on the red list are either extirpated, endangered or threatened, or are being considered for such status. Any indigenous taxon (species or sub-species) threatened with imminent extinction or extirpation throughout all or a significant portion of its range in British Columbia is endangered. Threatened taxa are those indigenous species or sub-species that are likely to become endangered in BC if conditions are not altered.

Region: large administrative units established within the province as a basis for decentralized decision-making and management by various provincial ministries. Their boundaries are based on a combination of natural and social features such as watersheds, transportation and communities, and are generally recognized as having geographic distinctiveness.

Regional land use plan: a plan identifying land use strategies at a regional level (e.g., a plan resulting from one of the C.O.R.E. regional processes).

Regional Protected Areas Team (RPAT): the inter-ministry committee in each region that is responsible for conducting the technical inventories and analyses required to identify gaps in the protected areas system, identify areas of interest, consult with the public and propose study areas.

Regionally important species: species which are not red- or blue-listed, that require management practices that differ from standard integrated resource management guidelines in order to fulfill critical habitat needs; or locally or regionally threatened or declining species or those that may reasonably be expected to decline without protection of critical habitats.

Reserve zone: (see riparian reserve zone)

Reserve: an area of forest land that is not currently available for timber harvesting or production.

Reserves: the retention of live or standing dead trees, pole size or larger, on site following harvest for purposes other than regeneration. Reserves can be uniformly distributed as single trees or left in small groups, and they can be used with any silvicultural system (see clearcutting with reserves).

Resident visitor: a person who resides in the province and travels at least 80 km away from their normal place of residence for any purpose (see also non-resident visitor, excursionist, tourist, tourism).

Resilience (recovery): the ability of a system to resume its state after sustaining a disturbance.

Resistance: the ability of a system, when subjected to an environmental change or potential disturbance, to withstand or resist variation.

Resource agency: defined in the Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act Operational Planning Regulation as any government agency, ministry or department having jurisdiction over a resource that may be affected by any activity or operation proposed under a higher level plan or operational plan.

Rresource analysis: the critical examination of resources and environment so as to support planning and decision-making. Resource analysis consists of:

Resource feature: as defined in Section 51 (1) of the Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act includes all of the following

Resource management zone (RMZ) - from regional or sub-regional plan: a division or zone of the planning area that is distinct from other zones with respect to biophysical characteristics, resource issues or resource management direction. Resource management zones (in land and resource management planning (LRMP) these include settlement, agriculture, high intensity resource development, general resource development, low intensity resource development and protection) may be drawn on a map to describe general management intent. The zones are usually further defined using descriptive objectives and strategies to explain future land use and resource management activities.

Resource management zone (RMZ) - under the Forest Practices Code: an area established under the Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act by the chief forester in accordance with policy direction from the Lieutenant Governor-in-Council or designated ministers. While the primary source of resource management zones and objectives will be approved land and resource management plans (LRMPs) or regional land-use plans, Cabinet or the ministers can direct the chief forester to establish a resource management zone independent of a regional or sub-regional planning process.

Resource value: values on Crown land which include but are not limited to biological diversity, fisheries, wildlife, minerals, oil and gas, energy, water quality and quantity, recreation and tourism, natural and cultural heritage, timber, forage, wilderness and aesthetic values.

Riparian area: areas of land adjacent to wetlands or bodies of water such as swamps, streams, rivers or lakes including both the area dominated by continuous high moisture content and the adjacent upland vegetation that exerts an influence on it.

Riparian class: refers to the classification given to streams, wetlands and lakes under Part 10 of the Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act Operational Planning Regulation.

Riparian management area (RMA): defined in the Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act Operational Planning Regulation as an area, of width determined in accordance with Part 10 of the regulation, that is adjacent to a stream, wetland or lake with a riparian class of L2, L3 or L4; and, consists of a riparian management zone and, depending on the riparian class of the stream, wetland or lake, a riparian reserve zone.

Riparian management zone: defined in the Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act Operational Planning Regulation as that portion of the riparian management area that is outside of any riparian reserve zone or if there is no riparian reserve zone, that area located adjacent to a stream, wetland or lake of a width determined in accordance with Part 10 of the regulation.

Riparian reserve zone: defined in the Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act Operational Planning Regulation as that portion, if any, of the riparian management area or lakeshore management area located adjacent to a stream, wetland or lake of a width determined in accordance with Part 10 of the regulation.

Road deactivation: measures taken to stabilize roads and trails during periods of inactivity, including the control of drainage, the removal of sidecast where necessary, and the re-establishment of vegetation on permanently deactivated areas.

Rotation: the planned number of years between the formation or regeneration of a stand and its final cutting at a specified stage of maturity.