Glossary of Resource Planning Terms

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Threatened or endangered plant communities: ecosystems, as listed by the Ministry of Environment, Lands and Parks Conservation Data Center, that:

are restricted in their distribution over a natural landscape (e.g., freshwater wetlands within certain biogeoclimatic zones) or are restricted to a specific geographic area or a particular type of local environment; or
were previously widespread or common but now occur over a much smaller area due to extensive disturbance or complete destruction by such practices as intensive harvesting or grazing by introduced species, hydro projects, dyking, and agricultural conversion.

Threatened or endangered species: (see red-listed species)

Timber: in terms of harvesting, any trees or stands or trees that are commercially valuable.

Timber licence (TL): area-based tenures which revert to the Crown when merchantable timber on the area has been harvested and the land reforested. Many of these licences have been incorporated into tree farm licences.

Timber sale licence (TSL): an agreement entered into under Part 3, Division 3 of the Forest Act which grants the rights to harvest timber on Crown land. A timber sale licence usually defines a specific volume of timber to be harvested from a specific area. In special circumstances, an allowable annual cut (AAC) is specified.

Timber supply area (TSA): an integrated resource management unit established in accordance with Section 6 of the Forest Act. TSAs were originally defined by an established pattern of wood flow from management units to the primary timber-using industries. They are the primary unit for allowable annual cut (AAC) determination.

Tourism: the aggregate of all business that directly provides goods or services to facilitate business, pleasure or leisure activities greater than 80 kilometres away from the home environment.

Tourism capability: the ability of a set of natural resources (such as forests, rivers, lakes, fish, wildlife, etc.) to support a particular tourism product.

Tourism product: the tourism activity or experience that a tourist participates in.

Tourism resource: a natural or cultural resource that is important for a specific tourism product. For example, wildlife viewing is an important activity in many parts of the province, therefore, wildlife viewing opportunities are a tourism resource.

Tourist: a visitor who stays at least one night in the province. It includes both resident visitors and non-resident visitors who travel for pleasure and business (see also excursionist).

Traditional use sites: a geographically defined site that has been traditionally used by one or more groups of people for some type of activity. These sites will often lack the physical evidence of human-made artifacts or structures, and maintain cultural significance to a living community of people. Traditional use sites are usually documented with the assistance of oral historical or written archival sources. Examples include: sacred sites, ritual bathing pools, resource gathering sites such as berry-gathering grounds and culturally modified trees, and the site of a legendary or past event of cultural significance (see cultural heritage resource).

Tree farm licence (TFL): an agreement entered into under Part 3, Division 5 of the Forest Act which grants the rights to harvest timber. A tree farm licence has a term of 25 years and requires a management plan providing for the establishment, management, and harvesting of timber in a described area (Crown and private land) on a sustained or perpetual yield basis (see also allowable annual cut (AAC)).