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Range Tenure Polygons

This spatial layer displays Range Tenures (grazing and hay cutting licence and permits) administered by the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations. A Range Tenure is an area of Crown rangeland where a Range Act tenure applies. Tenure holders access a defined amount of forage through grazing (measured in Animal Unit Months) or hay (tonnage). Range Tenures apply only to Crown Land. In some cases, digital boundaries may overlap Private Land but these lands are not part of the Grazing area (as described in the legal description). Grazing may overlap waterbodies during drawdown (also described legally in the Tenure documents and where applicable, Range Use Plan). Livestock may graze islands and large bodies of water may act as Natural Range Barriers. March 3, 2023: Updates to the Range Tenure attribute table as described. Please contact Nancy.Elliot@gov.bc.ca if you have questions. To guide your use: 1. Layer contains RETIRED, PENDING, and ACTIVE Tenures (=Licenses and Permits); Select ACTIVE under attribute LIFE_CYCLE_STATUS_CODE to isolate all active tenures (status refers to spatial boundary status - therefore, a spatial boundary must be Retired in the Forest Tenure Administration system to have a status of retired); 2. Unique ID for Polygon is by RAN# in attribute FOREST_FILE_ID. Each tenure has own its RAN# (e.g. RAN07777). Multiple areas (polygons) belonging to the same tenure may have same RAN# with unique map block ids (e.g. RAN07777 A, RAN07777 B) 3. The field SUM_TENURE_ACTIVE_AREA_HA will provide, where LIFE_CYCLE_STATUS_CODE is ACTIVE, the total tenure area in Ha. For single block (polygon) tenures, this will be the same area as the polygon. Where there are multiple blocks, this will be the total sum area of all Active blocks. (Note this does not include PENDING or RETIRED tenure areas. Area is for Approved and Active Tenure boundaries. A block may be Approved but Pending, and therefore is not included). Review data for multipart vs multi polygons 4. AUTHORIZED_USE and TOTAL_ANNUAL_USE are for the entire Tenure; where there are multiple blocks, the total is over all blocks, seasonally distributed through different pastures 3. FILE_TYPE_CODE contains information on the type of Permit: • E01 - Grazing License • E02 - Grazing Permit • H01 - Haycutting License • H02 - Haycutting Permit 4. IF YOU ARE DOING SPATIAL ANALYSIS based on AREA --- Please note that tenures overlap either partially or wholly amongst tenure holders. One area may be shared by more than one Tenure holder and therefore there will be multiple congruent or partially overlapping polygons (multipart). If you want to do SPATIAL ANALYSIS based strictly on area, you must collapse or flatten the data using DISSOLVE so that the polygons are 1:1 with the land base (suggested approach)

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Date ( RI_367 )
2011-03-09
Date ( RI_366 )
2008-01-15
RI_414
  Government of British Columbia; Government of British Columbia; Range Branch - ( )
RI_409
  Government of British Columbia; Government of British Columbia; Range Branch - ( )
Status
onGoing; enContinue RI_596
Maintenance and update frequency
irregular; irrégulier RI_541
Keywords ( RI_528 )
  • Canada
  • FTA
  • forest
  • forest tenure
  • grazing tenure
  • haycutting tenure
  • range
  • range tenure
  • rangeland
Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus Thésaurus des sujets de base du gouvernement du Canada ( RI_528 )
  • Government information
Use limitation
Open Government Licence - British Columbia (https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/data/open-data/open-government-licence-bc)
Access constraints
license; licence RI_606
Use constraints
license; licence RI_606
Spatial representation type
grid; grille RI_636
Metadata language
eng; CAN
Metadata language
fra; CAN
Topic category
  • Boundaries
Begin date
0001-01-01
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Reference system identifier
EPSG / EPSG:3005 / unknown
Reference system identifier
EPSG / EPSG:4326 / unknown
Distribution format
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RI_414
  Government of British Columbia; Government of British Columbia; Range Branch - ( )
RI_409
  Government of British Columbia; Government of British Columbia; Range Branch - ( )
OnLine resource
BC Geographic Warehouse Custom Download ( HTTPS )

Dataset;HTML;eng

OnLine resource
Original metadata (https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca) ( HTTPS )

Dataset;HTML;eng

OnLine resource
FTEN_RANGE_POLY_SVW ( HTTPS )

Dataset;KML;eng

OnLine resource
FTEN_RANGE_POLY_SVW ( OGC:WMS )

Web Service;WMS;eng

OnLine resource
FTEN_RANGE_POLY_SVW ( OGC:WMS )

Web Service;WMS;eng

File identifier
10b1b187-1ef5-421f-8aa2-f716379fdb99 XML
Metadata language
eng; CAN
Character set
utf8; utf8 RI_458
Hierarchy level
dataset; jeuDonnées RI_622
Date stamp
2025-05-06
Metadata standard name
North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003 - Geographic information - Metadata
Metadata standard version
HNAP ISO:19115 - 2003
RI_414
  Government of British Columbia; Government of British Columbia; Range Branch - ( )
RI_409
  Government of British Columbia; Government of British Columbia; Range Branch - ( )
 
 

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