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Symbol	Name	Description
SD	Spruce - Douglas-fir	Typically a dense coniferous forest, with soopolallie- or pine grass-dominated understories, which includes plant communities that progress through a mixture of lodgepole pine, Douglas-fir and western larch to a white spruce climax and subalpine fir climax, sometimes with lodgepole pine or trembling aspen present.
SF	White Spruce - Subalpine Fir	Typically a dense, coniferous sub-boreal forest, with dense shrub- moss-dominated understories, which includes communities that progress directly to a white spruce and subalpine fir climax, sometimes with lodgepole pine or trembling aspen.
SG	Subalpine Grassland	Typically a high elevation, lush grassland habitat dominated by perennial grasses and forbs, on dry sites.
SH	Shrub Fen	A fen wetland class, which typically is dominated by shrubs, found on poorly drained organic sites.
SK	Spruce - Swamp	A swamp wetland class, which typically is an open forested wetland of spruce with understorey of skunk cabbage and sparse shrubs, found on very poorly drained sites.
SL	Sub-boreal White Spruce - Lodgepole Pine	Typically a dense, sub-boreal coniferous forest, which includes plant communities that succeed through lodgepole pine seral forests to a white spruce climax.
SM	Subalpine Meadow	Typically a high elevation meadow community, dominated by moisture-loving herbaceous species, on wetter sites in subalpine forested areas.
SP	Slow Perennial Stream	Typically a freshwater riverine habitat contained within a channel that contains continuously-moving, slow-moving water, is bounded by banks or upland habitat, and has a low gradient; may include channels that form a connecting link between two bodies of standing water.
SR	Sitka Spruce - Black Cottonwood Riparian	Typically a dense coniferous forest, with fern- or shrub- dominated understories, which may progress through plant communities with red alder, black cottonwood or bigleaf maple to a coniferous mixture of Sitka spruce and western hemlock; found on or in association with fluvial sites.
SS	Big Sage Shrub/grassland	Typically an open to dense, dry shrubland, dominated by drought tolerant shrubs and perennial grasses and generally lacking trees.
ST	Subtidal Marine	Typically a habitat that consists of open ocean overlying the continental shelf with salinities in excess of 18 ppt and a substrate that is continuously submerged.
SU	Subalpine Shrub/Grassland	Typically high elevation, northern habitat, characterized by dense shrubs and bunchgrasses both intermixed and occassionally dominated by scrub birch, willows and Altai fescue.
SW	Shrub Swamp	A swamp wetland class, which typically is a tall shrub wetland, characterized by willows, a sparse cover of spruce and sedges, usually found along stream channels, and composed of a mixture of mineral and organic material.
TA	Talus	Typically sparsely vegetated, rubbly or blocky colluvial areas, at the base of rock outcroppings or escarpments.
TB	Trembling Aspen - Balsam Poplar	Typically an open, decidous subalpine forest found on warm aspects often in association with shrub/grasslands. This important habitat occurs on steep, warm aspects in the Spruce-Willow Birch biogoeclimatic zone.
TC	Transportation Corridor	Typically a linear-shaped land area dedicated to some form of above ground system for carrying products from one point to another, including roads and railways.
TF	Tamarack Wetland	A fen wetland class, which typically is an open forested wetland, dominated by tamarack, scrub birch, sedges and moss.
TR	Transmission Corridor	Typically a linear-shaped land area dedicated to some form of above or below ground system for carrying products from one point to another, including transmission lines and pipelines.
UR	Urban	Typically a mixture of man-influenced habitats, which includes residential areas, urban areas and commercial/industrial areas, but excludes major agriculture lands.
UV	Unvegetated	Typically non-alpine unvegetated areas consisting of exposed soils and excluding unvegetated bedrock sites.
WB	Whitebark Pine Parkland	Typically a subalpine habitat of open, whitebark pine forests, intermixed with lush bunchgrasses, other perennial grasses and forbs, on droughty sites.
WG	HybridWhite Spruce Bog	A bog wetland class, which typically is sparse to open, treed organic wetland, composed of hybrid white spruce with minor amounts of lodgepole pine and a moss dominated understorey.
WL	Wetland	Used for any wetland habitat class that cannot be recognized at small mapping scales.
WM	White Spruce - Moss	Typically an open, coniferous subalpine forest with moss-dominated understories found on steep cool aspects. This common habitat occurs most frequently in the Muskwa Foothills Ecosection.
WP	Subalpine Fir - Mountain Hemlock Wet Parkland	Typically a high-elevation mosaic of tree clumps and subalpine meadows or tundra, occurring above the closed forest and below the alpine.
WR	Hybrid White Spruce - Black Cottonwood Riparian	Typically a dense deciduous, mixed or coniferous forest, with shrub-dominated understories, found on or in association with fluvial sites, includes plant communities that succeed slowly through black cottonwood to potential white spruce climax.
YB	Yellow-cedar Bog Forest	Typically an open forest with shrubby yellow-cedar, mountain hemlock and western larch; found on poorly drained sites.
YM	Mountain Hemlock - Yellow Cedar	Typically an open scrubby forest with a well-developed understorey; mountain hemlock and yellow-cedar are the dominant climax species.
YS	Yellow-cedar - Mountain Hemlock - Skunk Cabbage	Typically an open forested wetland of yellow-cedar with understories of skunk cabbage and sparse shrubs found on poorly drained mineral sites.