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Provincial Watersheds, Historical
Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry
Note: This data has been replaced by the Ontario Watershed Boundaries (OWB). We are no longer updating this data. It is best suited for historical research and analysis. A...Resource formats:
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Forest Management Unit
Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry
Ontario's Crown forest is divided into geographic planning areas, known as forest management units. Most of these units are managed by individual forest companies under a...Resource formats:
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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...Resource formats:
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Cadastral Location
Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry
Often these parcels were surveyed before township surveys in their area. They may also be supplemental to them (as is the case with some Cadastral Islands). Sometimes these were...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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Historical Fire Management Zone
Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry
This dataset shows the boundaries of the province's six fire management zones that existed prior to 2014 in which most forest fires received the same type of response. These...Resource formats:
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Landform conservation area
Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry
Landform conservation areas represent areas of significant landform features such as: steep slopes kames kettles ravines ridges This dataset identifies Category 1 and...Resource formats:
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Kawarthas, Naturally Connected: A natural heritage system for the Kawartha Lakes region
Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry
Get data on the results of a community led planning process to sustain the natural environment for the Kawartha Lakes region. This dataset represents the results of a community...Resource formats:
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Windpower Legacy Applicant of Record
Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry
This provincial layer shows the site locations of onshore wind power Applicants of Record seeking regulatory approvals for renewable energy projects on Crown land. The ministry...Resource formats:
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St. Lawrence Basin watersheds
Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry
Data includes: The Lake Superior watershed The Lake Huron watershed The Lake Erie watershed The Lake Ontario watershed The St. Lawrence River watershedResource formats:
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Fire, aviation and emergency facilities
Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry
Facilities used by the Ministry of Natural Resources' Aviation Forest Fire and Emergency Services (AFFES) branch. This dataset is used to support aviation forest fire and...Resource formats:
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Annual forest fire reporting data
Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry
Get data on forest fires, compiled annually for the National Forestry Database The National Forestry Database includes national forest data and forest management statistics to...Resource formats:
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Waste Management Site
Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry
This new data class brings over data from the Waste Management Information System (WMIS), which is a Microsoft Access based database used by the Ministry of Natural Resources...Resource formats:
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Forest Insect Damage Event
Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry
Shows areas where forest insect pests have damaged or killed trees by defoliation, foliage mining and wood boring. Tree mortality rarely occurs as the result of one year's...Resource formats:
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Digital atlas of predicted species distributions, vegetation assemblages and habitat characteristics for the eco-district 6e10 and GPE — St. Lawrence Islands National Park, Version 1.0
Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry
The digital atlas contains distribution information of dominant forest plants, species assemblages (vegetation types), and some habitat and structural characteristics for the...Resource formats:
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Big Picture 2002 natural cores and linkages analysis
Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry
The Big Picture 2002 is a legacy geographic information system (GIS) based landscape analysis. It is a partnership between the Nature Conservancy of Canada and the Ministry of...Resource formats:
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Geographic Township Improved
Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry
A Township is a land subdivision in Ontario. This information was captured through the Ontario Base Mapping Program, is maintained by the Ministry of Natural Resources and...Resource formats:
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Fisheries Management Zone
Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry
Fisheries Management Zones have replaced former Fishing Divisions and are the geographic basis for managing, monitoring, assessing and regulating recreational fisheries for a...Resource formats:
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Aquatic resource area polygon segment
Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry
This spatial dataset represents the locations of aquatic resource area (ARA) polygon segments derived from corresponding polygon features in the Ontario Hydro Network. ARA...Resource formats:
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Emergency Management historical events
Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry
Most of these events involved community evacuations, significant structural loss and/or involvement of a Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) Emergency Response Officer. Events...Resource formats:
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