Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.
And thank you to the witnesses for being here today.
Let me start with Mr. McLean, if I may.
One of the things you talked about in your opening comments was the protection of landscape and the protection of species. You used the phrase “natural areas...within agricultural areas and managed forests”.
What do you define as “natural areas”? I'm thinking that often with forest management and replanting, tree planting and so forth, you have a lot of uniformity in what's planted, although there can be mixes sometimes, obviously. In that sense, what does the department define as a natural area?