gather text descriptions of each BEC unit

[cmahony]

for each BEC unit, e.g. CWHdm, we need a name, e.g. "Coastal Western Hemlock dry maritime"
and ideally a description, e.g.

DISTRIBUTION: The CWHdm occurs at low elevations on the mainland and immediately adjacent islands. It extends from Hardwicke Island in the north to the Chilliwack River in the southeast. Along the Sunshine Coast and lower Fraser Valley it occurs above and adjacent to the CWHxm, respectively. Elevational limits range from sea level (or above CWHxm if present) to approximately 650 m (lower in wetter valleys).

CLIMATE: The CWHdm has warm, relatively dry summers and moist, mild winters with little snowfall. Growing seasons are long, and feature only minor water deficits on zonal sites.

These descriptions are dispersed in the various regional field guides and are everything from on the web to a scanned (non-selectable) pdf. compiling all the descriptions would be a major task, and for the moment i think we should put this on the back burner. the Provincial BEC ecologist, Will MacKenzie may have a compiled set of these descriptions. Once we have a beta version and engage with him, we may be able to get him to give the descriptions to us.

As for the full name to match each code, i will compile that.

[cmahony]

The names aren't available now either. We need to get these from Will MacKenzie after we have a beta version up. i tried to link them from a previous version but the problem is that the variant names won't necessarily match up to the new variant numbers.