Glossary of Resource Planning Terms
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- NDT1 Ecosystems with rare stand-initiating events
- NDT2 Ecosystems with infrequent stand-initiating events
- NDT3 Ecosystems with frequent stand-initiating events
- NDT4 Ecosystems with frequent stand-maintaining fires
- NDT5 Alpine Tundra and Sub-alpine Parkland ecosystems.
Natural features: for the purposes of the Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act includes rock outcroppings, wetlands, lakes and streams.
Net economic benefit: the dollar value (both market and non-market) of resource outputs minus all private and public sector costs incurred in producing the outputs (including non-market and management costs).
Net present value: the sum of the net values of all present and future benefits discounted to the present time.
Non-designated wilderness: areas within the Provincial forest that have been zoned as wilderness through approved integrated resource management plans including regional land use plans and land and resource management plans (LRMPs) but that are not designated as wilderness areas under the Forest Act.
Non-resident visitor: a person who travels in the province but does not reside there (see also resident visitor, excursionist, tourist, tourism, visitor).
Not satisfactorily restocked (NSR): productive forest land that has been denuded and has failed, partially or completely, to regenerate either naturally or by planting or seeding to the specified or desired free growing standards for the site.
