Timber Harvesting Land Base

The total area of the Kootenay Lake Forest District is approximately 1.2 million hectares. Of this, 257,000 hectares are Crown land with forests which are feasible to harvest. This land is commonly referred to as the “Timber Harvesting Landbase”, or THLB.

Table 1. Timber harvesting land base for the Kootenay Lake TSA (TSR 2001)

Classification	Productive forest area (hectares)	Area (hectares)	Per cent (%) of TSA area	Per cent (%) of productive forest area
Total Kootenay Lake TSA		1 239 633	100.0
Not administered by the province of B.C.		135 997
Non‑forest and non‑productive forest land		486 279
Non‑commercial cover^a		4 059
Crown managed productive forest^b		613 299	49.5	100.0
Reductions to Crown managed productive forest
Not managed for timber supply	107 075	107 075
Low timber productivity	29 777	29 658
Problem forest types	12 665	11 826
Inoperable	192 445	165 452
Uneconomic areas	7 633	1 813
Sensitive terrain areas	39 722	17 142
Environmentally sensitive areas	34 007	2 963
Riparian management areas	14 904	10 687
Existing unclassified roads, trails and landings	8 833	8 833
Total current reductions		355 449	28.7	58.0
Current timber harvesting land base		257 850	20.8	42.0

(a) While areas of non‑commercial brush and trees are classified by the B.C. Forest Inventory as 'productive forest', they are excluded from the productive forest estimates in the analysis to be consistent with the definition given in the FPC Landscape Unit Planning Guide.

(b) Crown managed productive forest excludes woodlots which are not administered as part of the TSA for AAC determination.