PLANNING.National_Wildlife_Area

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Summary

This theme was developed to provide property identification of National Wildlife Area federal property in the Prairie and Northern Region (PNR). The identification of federal lands in Canada is a requirement of the Species at Risk Act (SARA).

Description

In 2003 the GIS unit of the Canadian Wildlife Service, Prairie and Northern Region (PNR) was given the task of creating GIS files to represent the Federal lands for use under the Species at Risk Act (SARA). Geospatial files were obtained from the Directory of Federal Real Property in January 2004. These point and polygon files were structured to show federal property in the PNR as area representations and as point labels. The National Wildlife Areas were developed from the legal descriptions included in the Canada Wildlife Act: Wildlife Area Regulations and matched to the cadastral where possible. The link to the Wildlife Area Regulations is: http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/w-9/c.r.c.-c.1609/62755.html.

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The information contained heron was created by the Environment Canada's Geographical Information System (GIS), which is designed and operated solely for the convenience of Environment Canada and related contract entities. Environment Canada does not warrant the accuracy of this information, and no decision involving a risk of economic loss or physical injury should be made in reliance thereon. No use constraints within Environment Canada.

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