Crown Land: Indicators and Statistics - Ministry of Forests

Table 6 Crown Land Tenured or Protected for Exclusive and Non-exclusive Use
Sector
Provincial Tenures and Protected Areas (hectares)
Exclusive Non-Exclusive Total
Agriculture and related activities 345,000 6,300 351,300
Energy
– Land Act 200 18,700 18,900
– Petroleum and Natural Gas Act 0 45,300 45,300
Environment and public recreation 1 13,414,700 0 13,414,700
Forestry
– Forest Act 2 0 72,824,000 72,824,000
– Land Act 4,300 4,700 9,000
Manufacturing & commercial 9,600 12,100 21,700
Mining 18,600 9,900 28,500
Other 3,000 0 3,000
Public services 49,800 15,200 65,000
Residential 1,000 1,000 2,000
Tourism & accommodation 1,000 17,307,500 17,308,500
Transport and communications 600 10,900 11,500
Utilities 0 1,763,100 1,763,100
Totals 13,847,800 92,018,700 105,866,500
Sources: Baseline Thematic Mapping (BTM); Statistics Canada Agricultural Census; Tantalis; The State of the British Columbia’s
Forests, 2006; Hectares BC; and other sources.
Notes: Calculations include all area-based surface tenures (including volume-based forestry tenures) as at May 2009. All
estimates are rounded to the nearest hundred hectares.
1 These tenures represent protected areas (see Section 4.6, Provincial Protected Areas). The environment and public recreation sector is
not one that appears in traditional national accounts measures like GDP, but it provides largely unpriced ecological goods and services
and is an important driver of government policy and administrative effort with respect to Crown lands.
2 Within the Provincial Forest, area-based licences total around 9 million hectares, and volume-based licences make up the balance.
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