Common use of Pattern Clause in Contracts

Pattern. The arrangement of forest stands or harvest units. Roads that will be in use for more than three years issued under a Public Lands Act disposition (LOC or DLO). A silvicultural treatment to reduce tree density in young stands, carried out before the stems reach merchantable size. The intent is to concentrate the site’s growth potential on fewer trees thereby accelerating stand development and reducing the time to final harvest, retaining more live crown, creating opportunities for future commercial thinning activities and improving stand operability. An Alberta-wide standardized classification of forested stands with ten categories based on tree species composition. Also referred to as minimum strata. Assignment rules provided in the Yield Projection Interpretive Bulletin of the Alberta Forest Management Planning Standard. The timber quota is a share of the allowable cut of coniferous timber within a forest management unit. Permanent removal of water crossings; re- contouring of road crown and ditches; reseeding or planting of the former ROW. Includes areas designated by Alberta as ecological reserves, wilderness areas, wildland parks, provincial parks, heritage rangelands, natural areas and recreation areas.