Oak Ridges Moraine - Rare, Threatened & Endangered (RTE) Species Occurrences Generalized Coordinate system: 26917 - "NAD83 / UTM zone 17N" Abstract: The Oak Ridges Moraine Conservation Plan (“Plan”) is an ecologically-based plan established by the Ontario government to provide land use and resource management direction for the 190,000 hectares of land and water within the Moraine. The dataset for generalized occurrences of rare, threatened and endangered (RTE) species contains 1km square blocks. Each block indicates with a general location an element (a unit of natural biological diversity) occurrence (an area of land and/or water in which an Element is, or was, present). Multiple blocks can be overlapping in cases where multiple Element Occurrences are found in the same general area.

Additional Documentation

• Metadata Information

  Language: eng

  Last Update: 2013-06-21

  Other Maintenance Requirements:

  292dc5d7-56ef-4e3b-acbb-480d7eb8857c

  Metadata Contact:

  Scholars Portal, Ontario Council of University Libraries Toronto Ontario, Canada

  Contact Instructions:

  gis@scholarsportal.info

  Metadata Standard:

  North American Profile of ISO 19115 Geographic Information Metadata

• Citation Information

  
  
  

  Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources Ontario, Canada

  Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing Ontario, Canada

  Themes or Categories of the Resource: environment

  Keywords:

  LAND USE PLANNING, NATURAL HERITAGE, ENDANGERED SPECIES, WATER, Oak Ridges Moraine, Conservation Plans, THREATENED SPECIES

  CONSERVATION

  Land management, Gestion des terres, Water, Endangered species, Espèce menacée, Patrimoine naturel, Natural heritage

  Place Keywords:

  Continent > North America > Canada > Ontario

  Purpose:

  To assist implementation of the Oak Ridges Moraine Conservation Plan, Ontario Regulation 140-02 made under the Oak Ridges Moraine Conservation Act, 2001.

  Dataset Language: eng; CAN

  Status: onGoing

  Update Frequency: asNeeded

  Spatial Representation Type: vector

  Processing Environment:

  ArcGIS 8.x; ESRI Shape File

  Extent

  West Longitude: -80.018073

  East Longitude: -77.919811

  North Latitude: 44.266955

  South Latitude: 43.755195

  
  

  Supplemental Information:

  This dataset has been updated by the Ministry of Natural Resources to support the implementation of the Oak Ridges Moraine Conservation Plan. All digital information is confined to the Oak Ridges Moraine area and a 2 kilometre surrounding zone.

  Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing GI/IT Coordinator pointOfContact

• Spatial Representation - Vector

  Geometric Objects:

  Object Type: composite

  Object Count: 6549

• Reference System Information

  Reference System Identifier

  Value: 26917

  Code Space: http://www.epsg-registry.org/

• Data Quality Information

  Scope Level: dataset

  
  

  The Natural Heritage Information Centre (NHIC) maintains this information in its Element Occurrence database. NHICs Element Occurrence (EO) data is the product of the review and quality checking of many data sources. Personal accounts of rare species are reported to NHIC and incorporated into the database. The majority of the EO data comes from existing data sets. These include the Atlas of Rare Vascular Plants of Ontario, COSEWIC Rare Vascular Plant Database, the Ontario Fish Distribution Database, the Ontario Herpetofaunal Summary, Ontario Rare Breeding Bird Program, Atlas of the Breeding Birds of Ontario, Ontario Butterfly Atlas, Ontario Aquatic Invertebrate Database, and several other data sets. Many EOs were also collected by MNR District staff during field work to confirm other natural heritage features.

• Distribution Information

  Distributor:

  Ontario Geospatial Data Exchange (OGDE), Ministry of Natural Resources (OMNR) Peterborough Ontario, Canada

• Related Links

  • Oak Ridges Moraine Conservation Plan