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Ministries: Natural Resources and Forestry (291)

  • Aquatic ecosystem classification for Ontario (AEC)

    Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry

    ​The aquatic ecosystem classification (AEC) is a science-based tool that groups and classifies Ontario’s rivers and streams based on their: physical attributes, such as water...

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    • WEB

  • 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...

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    • SHP

  • Ontario water and weather monitoring stations

    Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry

    Point locations of water and weather monitoring stations used by the Surface Water Monitoring Centre to assess flood and drought conditions across Ontario. Monitoring station...

    Resource formats:

    • SHP

  • 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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  • Fish stocking data for recreational purposes

    Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry

    Fish stocking data for recreational fishing purposes. Contains: stocking data for the past 10 years for species where the purpose of the stocking event was to promote...

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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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  • 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...

    Resource formats:

    • CSV

  • 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

  • Forest Resources of Ontario 2021

    Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry

    This data is a snapshot of Ontario’s forests using the latest available data. Summaries include: area and volume of forest types common tree species other land information...

    Resource formats:

    • SHP
    • 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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  • Bear management area

    Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry

    A bear management area is a polygon feature that identifies a ministry-regulated boundary used to manage, administer and enforce the licensed black bear hunting tourism program.

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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...

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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...

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  • Cervid ecological zones

    Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry

    Broad management guidance is applied across each Cervid Ecological Zone (CEZ) to help set local population and habitat objectives. CEZs reflect the overarching cervid management...

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  • Fire Disturbance Point

    Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry

    This dataset shows the locations of ignition points for forest fires less than 40 hectares in size. Fires that grow larger than 40 hectares are mapped in the Fire Disturbance...

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  • Lake Ontario tagged Atlantic salmon

    Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry

    Get data on Lake Ontario tagged Atlantic salmon recaptures. This dataset represents tagged adult Atlantic salmon that were released and then recaptured by anglers. These fish...

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  • Niagara Escarpment Plan land use designations

    Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry

    Depicts the internal boundaries of the Niagara Escarpment Plan area. The 7 land use designations are: escarpment natural area escarpment protection area escarpment rural area...

    Resource formats:

    • PDF
    • DOCX

  • Forest resource processing facilities

    Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry

    This data is used for referencing spatial and tabular Forest Resource Processing Facility information. Each facility has one or more processing sites, each dedicated to...

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  • In-filled Climate Data

    Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry

    The Ontario in-filled climate data collection includes information from 339 monitoring stations maintained by the Meteorological Service of Canada. Historical climate data...

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    • MDB

  • Minor urban centres in the Niagara Escarpment Plan

    Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry

    Minor urban center is one of the 7 Niagara Escarpment Plan land use designations. This designation includes rural settlements, villages and hamlets. The boundaries of minor...

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