PEI CORPORATE LAND USE INVENTORY 2000

LAND USE AND SUBUSE CODES

LANDUSE	CODE	SUBUSE	SUBCODE
AGRICULTURE	AGR	Farmstead	FM
		Feedlot	FL
		Fur Ranch	FR
		Manure Storage	MS
		Nursery	NU
		Orchard	OR
COMMERCIAL	COM	Accommodation	AC
		Food & Beverage	FD
		Motor Vehicle	MV
		Retail	RT
FORESTRY	FOR	Clear Cut	CC
		Hedgerow	HR
		Plantation	PN
		Wetland	WET
RESIDENTIAL	RES	Cottage	CO
		Mobile Home Park	MH
		Multiple Units	MT
		Single Unit	SG
INDUSTRIAL	IND	Auto Salvage	AS
		Excavation Pits	EP
		Fertilizer Plants	FT
		Food Processing	FP
		Land Fill	LF
		Tank Farm	TF
		Sawmill / Lumberyard	LY
NON-EVIDENT	NON	Abandoned Land	ABN
		Coastal Land	COS
RECREATION	REC	Campground	CG
		Golf	GF
		Playing Field	PF
		Rink	RK
		Ski Slope	SK
TRANSPORTATION	TRN	Airport	AR
		Communications Structures	CT
		Lighthouse	LH
		Power Line	PL
		Railway Right of Way	RR
		Road	RD
		Wharf	WF
URBAN	URB
WETLAND	WET	Reservoirs	RE
		Sewage	SE
		Forest	FOR
INSTITUTIONAL	INT	Church	CH
		Cemetery	CY
		Historic Site	HC
		Hospital	HO
		School	SC

LAND COVER CODES

LAND USE	LAND COVER CLASS	CODE
AGRICULTURE	Blueberries	BLB
	Cranberries	CRN
	Grain	GRN
	Hay	HAY
	Pasture	PAS
	Potatoes	POT
	Other	OTH
FOREST	Alder	AL
	Apple	MA
	Aspen Provenance	AS
	Austrian Pine	AP
	Balsam Fir	BF
	Beech	BE
	Birch Provenance	BI
	Black Ash	BA
	Black Spruce	BS
	Butternut	BN
	Cedar	CE
	Corsican Pine	CP
	Dead Tree	DT
	Douglas Fir	DF
	Eastern Larch	LA
	Elm	EM
	European Birch	EB
	European Larch	EL
	Grey Birch	GB
	Hemlock	HE
	Hybrid Poplar	HP
	Hybrid Spruce	HS
	Intolerant Hardwood	IH
	Jack Pine	JP
	Japanese Larch	JL
	Larch Provenance	LX
	Linden	LI
	Lodgepole Pine	LP
	Norway Spruce	NS
	Pin Cherry	PC
	Pine Provenance	PP
	Poplar	PO
	Red Maple	RM
	Red Oak	RO
	Red Pine	RP
	Red Spruce	RS
	Scots Pine	SP
	Sitka Spruce	SI
	Spruce / Fir Mix	SF
	Sugar Maple	SM
	Tolerant Hardwood	TH
	White Ash	WA
	White Birch	WB
	White Pine	WP
	White Spruce	WS
	Willow	WI
	Yellow Birch	YB
	Yugoslavian Pine	YP
WETLANDS	Bog	BOW
	Brackish Marsh	BKW
	Deep Marsh	DMW
	Meadow	MDW
	Open Water	OWW
	Salt Marsh	SAW
	Sand Dune	SDW
	Seasonally Flooded Flat	SFW
	Shallow Marsh	SMW
	Shrub Swamp	SSW
	Wooded Swamp	WSW
NON-AGRICULTURE, NON-FOREST & NON-WETLAND POLYGONS	Bare Soil	BAR
	Backshore Beach	BSB
	Building	BLD
	Coastal Inlet Water	WWW
	Grass	GRS
	Paved	PAV
	Shrubs	SHR
	Trees	TRE
	Water (Fresh)	WAT

SITE : A description of the ground surface for forest polygons where evident

EP	Excavation Pit – forest polygon located in an excavation pit
OF	Old Field - the forest polygon appears to be on area which was once an agriculture field
SD	Sand Dune - the forest stand is located on top of a sand dune
SW	Substrate Wet – the forest floor is damp but not enough for a wetland category
ST	Steep – the forest polygon is on a steep slope (approx 9% or greater)

HISTORY1/HISTORY2: Forest stand history where evident

2S	Two Storied stands
BR	Burn - if the stand appears to be of fire origin
CC	Clearcut - if the stand appears to have originated from a clearcut
HR	Hedgerow
IT	In Transition – an area under construction in which the land cover will change quickly from that indicated on the photograph e.g. building construction
PC	Partial Cut - forest stand appears to have originated from a partial cut
PN	Plantation and year will be indicated in this field from established data
SE	Seed Orchard, if the stand appears to have been established as a seed orchard
TH	Thinning, if the stand appears to have been thinned
WF	Wind Fall, if the stand appears to have originated from a wind fall
XS	Christmas Trees - any stand being used for Christmas tree cultivation

WETLAND COVER - The amount and distribution of vegetative subclasses throughout the wetland

Cover Type 1 – Over 95% of wetland is vegetated in a solid mass.

Cover Type 2 – Approximately 76-95% of wetland is vegetated as a peripheral band

Cover Type 3 - Approximately 76-95% of wetland is vegetated in dense patches.

Cover Type 4 – Approximately 26-75% of wetland is vegetated as a

peripheral band

Cover Type 5 - Approximately 26-75% of wetland is vegetated either in dense patches or diffuse open stands.

Cover Type 6 – Approximately 5-25% of wetland is vegetated as a peripheral band.

Cover Type 7 – Approximately 5-25% of wetland is vegetated in patches throughout the open water.

Cover Type 8 – Less than 5% of wetland is vegetated as a peripheral band.

WETLAND INTERSPERSION – The presence and length of certain types of vegetation edge. Edge referring to the line of contact between two different subclasses.

Low	– length and types of edge are at a minimum. Cover subclasses are large and unbroken.
Moderate	– edge is moderate in length and diversity. There is some irregularity in the distribution of cover classes but for the most part, the cover subclasses remain largely intact.
High	– edge is abundant and consists of many different vegetative types. Cover subclasses are broken into segments and scattered.

IMPOUNDMENT – the type of impoundment, if any, which contributes to the presence of the wetland.

BPA	Borrow Pit - Active	A pit, usually roadside, in which earth is being extracted
OMA	Other Man Made - Active	Any wetland which results from a currently active man-made structure
BA	Beaver Active	A wetland created from a single active beaver dam
BPI	Borrow Pit - Inactive	A pit usually roadside in which earth was extracted but which is currently inactive
OMI	Other Man Made - Inactive	Any other wetland which resulted from an old, inactive man-made structure
BI	Beaver Active	A wetland created from a single inactive beaver dam
BS	Beaver System	A wetland which contains a continuous series of beaver dams. The number of inactive and active dams will be recorded in the appropriate fields
BB	Barrier Beach Pond	A seaside pond created by movement of sand across the original outflow

DOMINANT WETLAND COVERS

1. OWW - Open Water: Refers to wetland with water depths of one to three metres (3 to 10 feet), associated with any of the other wetland classes, but usually with deep or shallow marshes. Submergent and surface vegetation are dominant.

2. DMW - Deep Marsh: This class applies to wetlands with and average water depth between 6 in. and 3 ft. (10 cm. and 1 m.) during the growing season. Emergent marsh vegetation is usually dominant, with surface and submergent plants present in open areas.

3. SMW - Shallow Marsh: This class applies to wetlands dominated usually by robust or marsh emergents, with an average water depth less than 6 in. (15 cm.) during the growing season. Surface water may be absent during the late summer and abnormally dry periods. Floating-leaved plants and submergents are often present in open areas.

4. SFW - Seasonally Flooded Flats: This class applies to extensive river flood plains where flooding to a depth of 12 or more inches (30 cm.) occurs annually during late fall, winter and spring. During the summer, the soil is saturated, with a few inches of surface water occurring locally. Dominant vegetation usually is emenrgent, but shrubs and scattered trees may be present.

5. MDW - Meadow: This class applies to wetland dominated by meadow emergents with up to 6 in. (15cm.) of surface water during the late fall, winter and early spring. During the growing season the soil is saturated and the surface exposed except in shallow depressions and drainage ditches. Meadows occur most commonly on agricultural land where periodic grazing or mowing keeps shrubs from becoming established. The structural differences in meadow vegetation often result from grazing; therefore, meadows have been divided into grazed and ungrazed subclasses (2).

6. SSW - Shrub Swamp: This class applies to wetlands dominated by shrubs where the soil surface is seasonally or permanently flooded with as much as 12 in. (30 cm.) of water. Carex spp., are often the ground cover under shrubs with meadow emergents occupying wetter areas.

7. WWS - Wooded Swamp: This class refers to wetlands dominated by trees growing in a muck soil. The soil surface may be seasonally flooded with up to 1 ft. (30 cm.) of water. Several levels of vegetation are usually present including trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants. In mature wooded swamps, differences in elevation may result in pronounced micro-habitats (micro topography), where trees and shrubs occupy the drier areas. Whereas marsh emergents and ferns may occupy the ephemeral pools of standing water.

8. BOW - Bog: This class applies to wetlands where the accumulation of Sphagnum moss, as peat, determines the nature of the plant community. Young bogs commonly have floating peat mats which creep outward from shore over the surface of open water. Picea mariana and Larix laricina are typical tree species. Chamaedaphne calyculata, Kalmia angustifolia, Sarracenia purpurea, and Eriophorum spp. are characteristic plants found in bogs throughout the Northeast.

WETLAND SUBCLASSES – No Wet Sub is the total number of vegetative subclasses as defined below

OPEN WATER
	VEGETATED
	NON-VEGETATED
DEEP MARSH
	DEAD WOODY
	SHRUB
	SUB-SHRUB
	ROBUST
	NARROW-LEAVED
	BROAD-LEAVED
	FLOATING
	FLOATING-LEAVED
	ALGAE
SHALLOW MARSH
	ROBUST
	NARROW-LEAVED
	BROAD-LEAVED
	FLOATING-LEAVED
SEASONALLY FLOODED FLATS
	EMERGENT
	SHRUBBY
MEADOW
	GRAZED
	UNGRAZED
SHRUB SWAMP
	SLENDER
	BUSHY
	COMPACT
	LOW SPARSE
WOODED SWAMP
	DECIDUOUS
	EVERGREEN
	DEAD WOODY
BOG
	WOODED
	SHRUBBY

COVER TYPE – Generalized forest type

AL	alder
CC	clearcut
HH	^>75% hardwood species
HS	50-75% hardwood species
PN	forest plantation
SH	50-75% softwood species
SS	^>75% softwood species