Table cont

Symbol	Name	Description
LS	Small Lake	Typically a fresh deepwater habitat that includes permanently flooded lakes (and sometimes reservoirs), usually 8 to 60 ha in size in a topographic depression, with most of the water less than 7 m in depth.
ME	Meadow	A meadow wetland class that typically is a lower elevation herbaceous community, dominated by moisture-loving species, on imperfectly to poorly drained mineral soil sites.
MF	Mountain Hemlock - Amabilis Fir	Typically a high elevation dense coniferous forest with shrub- dominated understories, which proceeds after disturbance directly to a climax species mix of mountain hemlock, western hemlock and amabilis fir; occassionally minor amounts of yellow-cedar are also present.
MI	Mine	Typically an area where mining exploration is presently taking place or an area where mining has recently been completed.
MR	Marsh	A marsh wetland class, which typically is permanently or seasonally inundated and that supports are extensive cover of emergent, non-woody vegetation, rooting in mineral-rich substrate.
MS	Montane Shrub/Grassland	Typically a varied mixture of shrubs, thickets and herbaceous openings found in steep breaks along lower river valleys
OA	Garry Oak - Arbutus	Typically a sparse to open mixed forest, with understories dominated by mosses and a dense mixture of spring wildflowers and grasses, growing on shallow rocky sites.
OV	Orchard/Vineyard	Typically an agricultural area used for growing hard and soft fruit crops, with some form of symmetrical arrangement of the trees, shrubs or vines.
OW	Shallow Open Water	A shallow open water wetland class that typically is comprised of permanent shallow open water and that lacks extensive emergent plant cover; water is usually less than 2 m in depth with submerged and floating aquatic plants present.
PB	Lodgepole/ Shore Pine Bog	A bog wetland class characterized by a sparse cover of stunted shore pine, and poorly drained coastal soils. Shrubs and sphagnum moss dominate the understorey.
PO	Lodgepole Pine Outcrop	Typically a sparse to open lodgepole pine forest, with understories dominated by moss, lichens and grasses, growing on shallow, rocky sites.
PP	Ponderosa Pine	Typically a sparse to open coniferous forest, with shrub- or perennial grass-dominated understories, that occur along the grassland/forest border, leading to a ponderosa pine and Douglas-fir climax.
PR	White Spruce - Balsam Poplar Riparian	Typically a dense, deciduous, mixed or coniferous forest with thick shrub understories, found on or in association with fluvial sites; includes plant communities that succeed through deciduous forests to a white (or hybrid white) spruce climax.
RB	Western Redcedar - Paper Birch	Typically a dense coniferous forest, with shrub-dominated understories, which includes plant communities that succeed through deciduous seral stages or through Douglas-fir, lodgepole pine and western larch (sometimes) to a climax of western redcedar and hybrid spruce.
RD	Western Redcedar - Douglas-fir	Typically a dense coniferous forest, with shrub-dominated understories, which includes plant communities that succeed through Douglas-fir, lodgepole pine and western larch (sometimes) to a climax of western redcedar.
RE	Reservoir	Typically a fresh, dammed, deepwater habitat, which is permanently flooded, with variable water levels.
RM	Reclaimed Mine	Typically a mined area or mine tailings that have plant communities composed of a mixture of agronomic grasses and forbs and native plants.
RO	Rock	Typically a mixture of gentle to steep nonalpine bedrock escarpments and outcroppings with little soil development and relatively low vegetative cover.
RR	Western Redcedar - Black Cottonwood Riparian	Typically a dense coniferous forest, with shrub-dominated understories, which includes plant communities that may succeed either through deciduous seral species or directly to a climax of hybrid spruce, western redcedar and western hemlock.
RS	Western Redcedar Swamp	A swamp wetland class that typically is an open forested wetland of western redcedar and various conifers, with a skunk cabbage and fern understorey, associated with very poorly drained sites.
SA	Sub-boreal White Spruce - Trembling Aspen	Typically a dense mixed or coniferous sub-boreal forest, with shrub- and herb-dominated understories, which includes plant communities that succeed through trembling aspen seral forests to a white spruce climax.
SB	White Spruce - Paper Birch	Typically a dense, mixed sub-boreal forest, with dense shrub-dominated understories, which includes plant communities that succeed through paper birch, trembling aspen and Douglas-fir seral forests to a white spruce climax.
SC	Shrub-Carr	A shrub-carr wetland class that typically is dominated by shrubs, found on poorly drained mineral soil sites.