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100 datasets found

Licences: Open Government Licence – Ontario (100) and Ministries: Natural Resources and Forestry (100) and Update frequency: As required (100)

  • Forest resources inventory status

    Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry

    This dataset provides various Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry business areas with fundamental forest inventory information needed to meet their program mandates.

    Resource formats:

    • WEB

  • Snow Survey measurement locations

    Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry

    This dataset contains location information for 2 of Ontario’s snow monitoring networks: Surface Water Monitoring Centre (SWMC) Snow Network for Ontario Wildlife (SNOW),...

    Resource formats:

    • WEB
    • XLSX

  • Ontario Land Cover Version 1.0

    Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry

    Ontario Land Cover (OLC) is a primary data layer. It provides a comprehensive, standardized, landscape level inventory of Ontario’s natural, rural and anthropogenic (human made)...

    Resource formats:

    • WEB

  • Precipitation data

    Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry

    This data contains information on active precipitation gauges in Ontario. These precipitation gauges: measure how much rainfall/precipitation falls on the ground (mm) are...

    Resource formats:

    • CSV
    • WEB

  • Ministry of Natural Resources Region

    Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry

    MNR regions were created to help manage ministry programs and resources at a regional level. Extents of the regions were originally compiled by description of: metes and bounds,...

    Resource formats:

    • WEB

  • Ministry of Natural Resources District

    Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry

    MNR regions are divided into districts - smaller organizational units - to help manage ministry programs and resources. Extents of the districts were originally compiled by...

    Resource formats:

    • WEB

  • First Nation Reserve

    Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry

    Identifies First Nation Reserve boundaries defined by the Legal Surveys Division of Natural Resources Canada.

    Resource formats:

    • WEB

  • Ontario Hydro Network - Watercourse

    Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry

    Watercourses are line features - natural or manmade - that represent the location of flowing surface water. This product requires the use of GIS software. *[GIS]: geographic...

    Resource formats:

    • WEB
    • PDF
    • DOCX

  • Forest Resources Inventory leaf-on LiDAR

    Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry

    Single photon lidar light detection and ranging (SPL LiDAR) is an active remote sensing technology for: mapping vegetation aspects including cover, density and height...

    Resource formats:

    • WEB

  • Natural heritage system areas (NHSAREA)

    Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry

    This dataset shows the boundaries of systems of natural heritage features and areas, lands and waters that support connectivity and have significant ecological value. It...

    Resource formats:

    • WEB
    • PDF
    • DOCX

  • Crown Game Preserves

    Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry

    Crown Game Preserves were established to prohibit or regulate the hunting and trapping of wildlife in specific areas to restore local populations.

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  • Wildlife habitat matrices and habitat descriptions for rare vascular plants

    Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry

    Please note that the information contained within this appendix is considered to be a snapshot in time when the Significant Wildlife Habitat Technical Guide was developed. We...

    Resource formats:

    • CSV

  • Ontario Integrated Hydrology (OIH) data

    Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry

    Ontario Integrated Hydrology (OIH) data is used to generate watersheds and support provincial-scale hydrology applications including: watershed generation hydrologic modelling...

    Resource formats:

    • PDF

  • Aquatic ecosystems in the Great Lakes Basin

    Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry

    The dataset has been used for the Great Lakes Conservation Blueprint Project for Aquatic Biodiversity. It can be used for: research and aquatic species inventories...

    Resource formats:

    • SHP

  • Ontario Trail Network

    Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry

    The Ontario Trail Network (OTN) contains geospatial networks of trails in urban, rural and wilderness settings that are managed by a named organization for transportation,...

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  • Ontario waterbody location identifier

    Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry

    This dataset represents unique Ontario waterbody location identification information including: unique identifiers geographic coordinates geographic township municipality...

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  • Forest Resource Inventory Term 2 (T2) 2018-2028

    Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry

    The Forest Resources Inventory (FRI) provides information about tree species, including: composition height age density Ontario’s forest resource inventories allow us to...

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  • Beaches in Ecoregion 6e6 and 7e5

    Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry

    Two classes of beaches are distinguished, those with infrastructure and those without. Beaches with infrastructure: open sandy beaches along the shore of a great lake, within...

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  • Ontario Tree Seed Transfer Policy data

    Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry

    This highly specialized publication (Ontario Tree Seed Transfer Policy data) is available in English only in accordance with Regulation 671/92, which exempts it from translation...

    Resource formats:

    • XLSX
    • ZIP
    • CSV

  • Trapline area

    Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry

    A trapline area is a polygon feature that identifies a ministry-regulated boundary used to administer traplines and fur management programs.

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