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Ministries: Natural Resources and Forestry (224) and Topics: Environment and energy (113) Environment and Natural Resources (224)

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  • Standardized Precipitation Index

    Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry

    The Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) was generated for certain Environment Canada long-term climate stations in Ontario. The SPI quantifies the precipitation deficit and...

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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...

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  • Bathymetry points

    Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry

    Data has been collected primarily using a depth measurement device, such as an echo-sounder, in combination with a Global Positioning System (GPS) for horizontal positioning....

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  • Shoreline Status along the Southern Georgian Bay Shoreline 2006-2008

    Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry

    A synthesis of available background data on the types and extent of anthropogenic disturbances on this shoreline as a well as to understand the types and amount of remaining...

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  • International Boundary Waters Regulation

    Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry

    Ontario's recreational fishing regulations are based on 20 Fisheries Management Zones. This map outlines the "border waters area" in Zone 5. The layer and the...

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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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  • UTM (Universal Transverse Mercator) 100 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....

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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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  • Ontario Watershed Information Tool (OWIT)

    Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry

    The Ontario Watershed Information Tool (OWIT) is used to calculate information about Ontario’s watersheds. Watersheds are areas of land where surface water converges to a single...

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  • Fire - potential hazardous forest types for wildland fire

    Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry

    Hazardous forest types for wildland fire means forest types assessed as being associated with the risk of high to extreme wildland fire. This data is intended to help inform...

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  • Ministry of Natural Resources District

    Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry

    Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) regions are divided into districts - smaller organizational units - to help manage ministry programs and resources. Extents of the districts...

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  • Transport Line

    Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry

    This dataset contains manmade linear features in a transportation network, such as bridges and railway tunnels. It does not include roads. The linear features included are:...

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  • Far North hydrology and elevation maps

    Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry

    These maps are available for the Far North Land Use Planning Area at 2 scales (1:100,000 and 1:250,000). The maps were created as a resource for community-based Land Use...

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  • Ontario Hydro Network - Hydrographic Line

    Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry

    A feature is a representation of a real world object, such as a lake, stream, dam or rapid. There are three hydrographic feature classes:  points, lines and polys.   All may...

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  • Bathymetry index

    Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry

    The attribute table included in the dataset provides some limited metadata information that is specific to each lake. This includes the: survey year survey method original map...

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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 watershed

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  • Miscellaneous line

    Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry

    The dataset represents prominent linear (man-made or natural) features including: cliffs dykes fences walls hedgerows feature outlines racetrack centre lines racetrack...

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  • Ministry of Natural Resources Region

    Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry

    Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) regions were created to help manage ministry programs and resources at a regional level. Extents of the regions were originally compiled by...

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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.

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  • Miscellaneous Point

    Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry

    This dataset contains miscellaneous point features including: mine head frames cadastral iron bar (a type of survey monument) historical monuments horizontal control monuments...

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