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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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
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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:
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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.Resource formats:
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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
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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:
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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
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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,...Resource formats:
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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...Resource formats:
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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...Resource formats:
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Land cover compilation
Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry
This dataset combines: Far North Land Cover Southern Ontario Land Resource Information System Provincial Land Cover 2000 Edition While each of these source products has...Resource formats:
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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...Resource formats:
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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
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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.Resource formats:
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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...Resource formats:
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Bait Harvest Area
Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry
Bait resources in most of the province are assigned to harvesters through the use of a block system -- 1 harvester per 'bait harvest' area. There are exceptions to the...Resource formats:
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UTM (Universal Transverse Mercator) 1 Km Grid
Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry
Many geometrical schemes - or map projections - are used to represent the curved surface of the Earth on map sheets. Canada uses the Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) system....Resource formats: