Canada's Forest Inventory 2001 - Publications du gouvernement du ...

Code Description Definition
21244 Pipeline Land cleared for pipelines
21250 Airstrip Land cleared for airstrips
21260 Harvested or burned Firebreak or landing/slash pile area
22000 Vegetated (origin and type
undifferentiated)
22100 Naturally vegetation non-treed
22110 Wetland Wetlands not falling into categories below
22111 Muskeg/bog/fen Wetlands typically covered by peat, having a
saturated water regime, and frequently covered by
ericaceous shrubs, sedges, and sphagnum moss
22112 Marsh Wetland completely or partially covered with tall
grass, rushes, or sedges and less than 25% cover of
ericaceous woody plants
22113 Meadow Land that may be flooded intermittently and usually
contains an accumulation of peat, covered by sedges,
reed grasses, rushes, and other hydrophytic vegetation
with larger shrubs amounting to less than 50% of the
vegetative cover
22114 Shrub Similar to meadow, except that the larger shrubs
(willow, alder, etc.) amount to more than 50% of the
vegetative cover
22115 Supertidal marsh Coastal marshes of the Hudson Bay – James
Bay Lowland lying inland of the coastal mudflat
and intertidal marsh areas and subject to only
exceptionally high tides
22120 Upland shrub
22121 Alders Land (not wetland) where the dominant vegetation is
alders
22122 Brush/avalanche scrub/ Shrubby areas not on lowlands, on avalanche tracks,
riparian banks
and along rivers or streams
22130 Other
22131 Grassland/meadow Moist, low lying and usually flat land with sedges and
graminoids predominant
22132 Open range Nonforested range that may have from 6 to 10%
crown cover of trees
22133 Mosses Mosses and/or bryophytes
22134 Tundra – shrub and Barren land in which shrubs and lichen are the
lichen
dominant cover type
22135 Tundra heath Areas of dense ericaceous vegetation occurring on
better-drained land
22136 Alvar Grasslands on calcareous soils
22200 Anthropogenically vegetated
non-treed
22210 Agriculture/crops Land cleared for agriculture purposes – includes farm
crops, market gardens, orchards, hay fields, blueberry
production, etc.
22220 Pasture Open grassland (primarily used for grazing livestock)
with less than 10% crown closure of woody shrubs
22300 Vegetated treed
22310 Wetland
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