(q) ‘forest’ is an area of land of at least 0.5 hectare, with tree crown cover or an equivalent stocking level of at least 10 per cent of the area, covered with trees with the potential to reach a minimum height of at least 5 metres at maturity at their place of growth, including groups of growing young natural trees, or a plantation that has yet to reach a tree crown cover or equivalent stocking level of at least 10 per cent of the area or tree height of at least 5 metres, including any area that normally forms part of the forest area but on which there are temporarily no trees as a result of human intervention, such as harvesting, or a ...[+++]s a result of natural causes, but which area can be expected to revert to forest;

It is not just the great stands of timber that have been devastated or that are threatened.

Scientists from the University of Northern British Columbia and the Canadian Forest Service are working together to discover, among other things, the dispersal patterns of beetle populations, the factors contributing to the rate of decay in beetle killed timber, the hydrological changes in forest stands killed by the beetle, and at what point a beetle-attacked stand no longer contributes to the outbreak expansion.

(a) “Forest ecosystems” means ‘forest’ being land with tree crown cover (or equivalent stocking level) of more than 10 percent and area of more than 0.5 ha., the trees being able to reach a minimum of 5m. at maturity in situ, and ‘other wooded land’ being land either with a tree crown cover (or equivalent stocking level) of 5 to 10 percent of trees able to reach a height of 5 m. at maturity in situ; or a crown cover (or equivalent stocking level) of more than 10 percent of trees not able to reach a height of 5 m at maturity in situ (e.g. dwarf or stunted trees) or shrub or bush cover;

(a) “Forest ecosystems” means "forest" being land with tree crown cover (or equivalent stocking level) of more than 10 percent and area of more than .5 ha., the trees being able to reach a minimum of 5m. at maturity in situ, and "other wooded land" being land either with a tree crown cover (or equivalent stocking level) of 5 to 10 percent of trees able to reach a height of 5 m. at maturity in situ; or land with a crown cover (or equivalent stocking level) of more than 10 percent of trees not able to reach a height of 5 m at maturity in situ (e.g. dwarf or stunted trees) or shrub or bush cover;

"Other wooded land" means land with either a tree crown cover (or equivalent stocking level) of 5-10% of trees able to reach a height of 5m at maturity in situ, or a crown cover (or equivalent stocking level) of more than 10% of trees not able to reach a height of 5m at maturity in situ (e.g. dwarf or stunted trees) or shrub or bush cover of more than 10%;