Acronyms

• AF: Alpine Forest
• AT: Alpine Tundra
• AAC: Allowable Annual Cut
• BCFS: BC Forest Service
• BEC: Biogeoclimatic Classification
• BEO: Biodiversity Emphasis Option
• BMP: Best Management Practice
• CWD: Coarse Woody Debris
• DFA: Defined Forest Area
• DFO: Federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans
• ESA: Environmentally Sensitive Area
• ESSF: Englemann Spruce-Subalpine Fir
• FEN: Forest Ecological Network
• FPC: Forest Practices Code
• GIS: Geographic Information System
• ICH: Interior Cedar-Hemlock
• IRMA: Integrated Resource Management Area
• IWAP: Interior Watershed Assessment Program
• LRMP: Land and Resource Management Plan
• LRUP: Local Resource Use Plan
• MAI: Mean Annual Increment
• MELP: BC Ministry of Environment, Lands and Parks
• MOF: BC Ministry of Forests
• MSYT: Managed Stand Yield Table
• NAR: Net Area to be Reforested
• NcBr: Non-Commercial Brush
• NDT: Natural Disturbance Type
• NDT1: ecosystems with rare stand-initiating events
• NDT2: ecosystems with infrequent stand-initiating events
• NDT3: ecosystems with frequent stand-initiating events
• NDT4: ecosystems with frequent stand-maintaining fires
• NDT5: alpine tundra and subalpine parkland
• NSR: Not Satisfactorily Restocked
• NSYT: Natural Stand Yield Table
• OAF: Operational Adjustment Factor
• OGMA: Old Growth Management Area
• OPR: Operational Planning Regulation
• PAS: Protected Area Strategy
• RDI: Road Density Index
• RFA: Regenerating Forest Area
• RMA: Riparian Management Area
• RMZ: Riparian Management Zone
• ROCE: Return On Capital Employed
• RPM: Roads Performance Model (Houston Forest Products)
• SBS: Sub-Boreal Spruce
• SOP: Standard Operating Procedure
• SP: Silviculture Prescription
• TFL: Tree Farm Licence
• THLB: Timber Harvesting Land Base
• TSA: Timber Supply Area
• TSR: Timber Supply Review
• WTP: Wildlife Tree Patch