Tree Farm Licence 25

• Tree Farm Licence 25
• Objective of this Document
• Description of the TFL
• History of AAC
• New AAC Determination
• Information Sources Used in the AAC Determination
• Role and Limitations of the Technical Information Used
• Statutory Framework
• Guiding Principles
• The Role of Base Cases in AAC Determinations
• Timber Supply Analysis Base Case Projections
• Consideration of Factors as Required by Section 7 of the Forest Act
  • Land base contributing to timber harvest.
    • - general comments
    • - inoperable and inaccessible terrain
    • - environmentally sensitive areas
    • - deciduous
    • - parks
    • - low productivity sites and unmerchantable forest types
    • - helicopter logging
    • - roads, trails and landings
  • Existing forest inventory
    • - age of the inventory
    • - age class distribution and species profile
    • - volume estimates for existing stands
  • Expected rate of growth
    • - site productivity estimates
    • - volume estimates for regenerated stands
    • - minimum harvestable ages
  • Regeneration delay
  • Impediments to prompt regeneration
  • Not-satisfactorily-restocked areas
  • Silvicultural systems
  • Silviculture practices
  • Commercial thinning
  • Utilization standards
  • Decay, waste and breakage
  • Integrated resource management objectives
    • - forest cover requirements
    • - biodiversity and old growth
    • - domestic water use considerations
    • - visually sensitive areas
    • - recreation
    • - wildlife
    • - riparian areas
  • 20-Year Plan
  • Harvest Queuing
  • Partitioned component of the harvest
  • Harvest flow alternatives
  • Difference between AAC and actual harvest
  • Current and proposed timber processing facilities
  • Minister's letter and memorandum
  • Local objectives
  • Unsalvaged losses
• Reasons for Decision
  • Block 1
  • Block 2
  • Block 3
  • Block 4
  • Block 5
• Determination
• Implementation
• Appendix 1:
• Appendix 2:
• Documents attached:
  • Appendix 3:
  • Appendix 4: