Metadata information:

1) Data name:	
	mb_tenures

2) Short description:	
	Spatial tenure data Both area and volume-based tenures for the province of Manitoba. Lists license numbers and holders. Tenures/concession polygons will contain areas restricted to logging and other resources extraction activities by protected areas legislation and by other legislative and policy restrictions. We attempted to include only crown lands and exclude all private lands where the data was available, but some jursiductions may have inadvertently included private lands.

3) Description of fields:
	FML-no: Forest Management Licence Number
	Company_1: Company operating within selected license area with thehighest AAC for that unit.
	Comapny_2: Company with second highest AAC for that unit.
	

4) Data type and format: 
	Vector digital data, Arc View (*.shp)

5) Creation Date: 
	January 2004

6) Source of information--data origin:
	Shape file obtained from Forestry Inventory and Resource Analysis, Forestry Branch, Manitoba Conservation and Tembec Industies Inc. 
		
7) Projection Information:
	Projection: Lambert Conformal Conic
	Units: meters 
	Spheroid: Clarke 1866
	Central Meridian: -95 degrees
	Reference Latitude: 49 degrees
	Standard Parallel 1: 77 degrees
	Standard Parallel 2: 49 degrees
	False Easting: 0 m
	False Northing: 0 m

8) Publisher:
	Global Forest Watch Canada
	10337 146 Street 
	Edmonton, Alberta
	T5N 3A3

9) Contact name:	
	Zoran Stanojevic
	GIS / Remote Sensing Analyst
	Phone: (780) 422-5989
	e-mail: zorans@fanweb.ca

[Last updated: January 5/04]