High sensitivity areas
glossary and government resources
High sensitivity areas
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areas having special concerns, issues, or the potential for negativeimpacts on resource values, including any soils with high hazard or very high hazard forcompaction, erosion, mass wasting, or displacement. [Ministry of Forests -- Government of British Columbia]
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