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THE JURISDICTIONS COMPARED AND THEIR CHARACTERISTICS
JURISDICTIONS CHOSEN FOR THE COMPARATIVE REVIEW
Jurisdictions for this comparative review were selected by the Project Management Committee (joint representation from the Ministry of Environment, Lands, and Parks and Ministry of Forests) in consultation with the study team. Background information was reviewed in order to determine that the jurisdictions did in fact have some form of forest practices rules or regulations which could be examined. In addition, they were chosen so that a cross-section of North American, European, Scandinavian and Australian jurisdictions were represented. The selection included National, State and Provincial levels of authority. The jurisdictions selected to compare with British Columbia were:
CANADA
UNITED STATES
- U.S. Forest Service (Region 6)
- Alaska
- Washington State
- Oregon
- California
EUROPE
- United Kingdom
- Germany (Federal Republic and State)
- Sweden
- Finland
AUSTRALIA
- Tasmania
- Western Australia
- Victoria State
