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231 datasets found

Access level: Open (231) and Ministries: Natural Resources and Forestry (231)

  • Site regions and districts

    Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry

    Site Regions and Site Districts of Ontario represent an early Ecological Land Classification (ELC) system originally developed by Angus Hills. This dataset was revised by the...

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  • Provincial Satellite Derived Disturbance Mapping

    Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry

    The data layer identifies areas of disturbance to vegetation including burns, commercial forestry harvesting (cuts), weather events, infrastructure and pest/disease....

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  • 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)...

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    • WEB

  • Provincial land cover

    Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry

    The land cover classes consist of vegetation types (such as forest, wetlands and agricultural crops or pasture) and categories of non-vegetated surface (such as water bodies,...

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  • Ontario provincial land cover 1996 - 28 classes

    Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry

    This data was produced in 1999 by rationalizing a 48-class database into 28 distinct classes. The original database was derived from digital, multispectral Landsat Thematic...

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    • PDF

  • Moose population monitoring summaries

    Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry

    This data set contains the results of moose aerial inventory surveys we collect each winter across parts of Ontario. These surveys are used to: monitor moose populations...

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    • XLSX

  • Great Lakes Shoreline Ecosystem inventory

    Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry

    This dataset contains the Great Lakes Shoreline Ecosystem (GLSE) inventory, which is a geospatial digital inventory of: ecosite polygon mapping field survey calibration points...

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  • 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.

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    • WEB

  • Forest resources inventory packaged products

    Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry

    This dataset covers Forest Resource Inventories between 2001 and 2004. It includes: stand regeneration harvested trees trees lost to wildfire, insects, disease or wind damage...

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    • WEB

  • Forest Disease Damage Event

    Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry

    Data show where pathogens - fungal, bacillial or viral - have caused damage by reducing growth rates, tree vigor or have killed trees. Examples of forest diseases include White...

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  • Forest Abiotic Damage Event

    Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry

    An abiotic damage event is a non-biological event -- such as wind or an ice storm -- that has damaged areas of forested land. Abiotic damage event information is mainly used to:...

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  • Forest Miscellaneous Damage Event

    Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry

    Miscellaneous events are often the result of the cumulative impact of a combination of abiotic, insect and disease agents or events. For example, Aspen decline where repeated...

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  • Far North land cover

    Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry

    This data covers the entire Far North from 2005-2011. The data is provided in both grid and vector formats. It is broken into layers that cover UTM zones 15, 16 and 17. Layers...

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  • Ecozones

    Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry

    This dataset is used for national and coarse-scale provincial reporting such as analyses of climate, demographics and watersheds.

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  • Ecoregions

    Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry

    This dataset is used is used to determine the significance or status of wetland classes and certain other natural heritage features. It is also used to set targets for...

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  • Ecological land classification

    Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry

    The Ministry of Natural Resources defines ecological units on the basis of bedrock, climate (temperature, precipitation), physiography(soils, slope, aspect) and corresponding...

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  • Ecodistricts

    Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry

    This dataset is used to: assess biodiversity levels define seed zones map ecosystem types set targets for the identification of natural heritage systems

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  • Chronic wasting disease surveillance in members of the deer family

    Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry

    Chronic wasting disease is a fatal, untreatable disease of the central nervous system affecting members of the wild cervid family (for example, white-tailed deer, American elk,...

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    • CSV

  • Built-Up Area

    Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry

    Built-Up Areas are man-made land cover features, ranging from small hamlets at rural cross roads to large cities. This product requires the use of GIS software. *[GIS]:...

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  • Aquatic invasive species

    Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry

    This dataset includes ecological information for non-indigenous aquatic species (fish, invertebrates and plants) that were identified as current or potential invaders to Ontario...

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    • CSV