This feature delineates forest and vegetation stands in the Yukon at a scale of 1:40,000. It is a management level forest inventory (as opposed to an operational level) - meaning that analysis and mapping are most effective close to the 1:40,000 scale and not larger. This inventory has been completed in various stages: delineation from hardcopy black and white photographs took place from 1987 to 2002; while recent data collection has proceeded through a digital (aka 'softcopy') methodology of scanned photographs and digital elevation models.