Provincial Proxy Timber Harvesting Land Base (Proxy THLB)
Published by Forest Analysis and Inventory Branch
About this dataset
The Provincial Proxy Timber Harvesting Land Base is intended to support high-level (strategic-level) resource management planning and forest estate modelling. It is a general estimate of the land where timber harvesting is considered both acceptable and economically feasible. It is a theoretical, and could include areas that may never be harvested or may exclude areas that will be harvested. The spatial data SHOULD NOT be used for operational level analysis. The Provincial Proxy THLB uses a province-wide methodology to estimate the land base where timber harvesting is considered both acceptable and economically feasible given such inputs as: the current provincial *Forest Vegetation Inventory Rank 1* (https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/2ebb35d8-c82f-4a17-9c96-612ac3532d55), *Land Designation for Forest Management* (https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/4574f131-470e-407c-bbcc-5b19d9adcc1b), and *Forest Harvesting Restrictions* (https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/6c0bcb22-49cb-4315-bc9c-c4668495cc45) The Provincial Proxy THLB is different from the *Provincial Timber Harvesting Land Base (THLB) -- Timber Supply Review Compilation* (https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/8a87abbd-7623-426a-94c4-12e9dfea7cb0). The latter is a compilation of the 'official' THLB created to support the Allowable Annual Cut (AAC) determinations during the Timber Supply Review process, and the latter should be used when wanting to understand what area was included in the analysis supporting an AAC determination.