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Catalogue Entry: Protecting Forests
Approximately 7.6% of Canada's forest land is located in protected areas. Over 95% of protected forests are totally protected and the rest reflect degrees of human intervention... -
Catalogue Entry: Model Forests
Canada's Model Forest Program is an initiative to build partnerships towards achieving sustainable forest management. The network is composed of eleven model forests. Each model... -
Catalogue Entry: Fire Danger Rating, 2009
Fire danger rating is the process of systematically evaluating and integrating the factors that determine the ease of a fire starting and spreading, the difficulty of control,... -
Catalogue Entry: Forest Fire Hotspots, 2009
A hotspot is a mark on an infrared satellite image indicating a heat source typical of burning vegetation. A hotspot may represent one fire or be one of several hotspots... -
Catalogue Entry: Forest Fire Severity Level, 1988 - 1989
Climate warming can bring more frequent and severe forest fires. This map shows the change in forest fire severity levels across Canada from 1980 to 1989, based on Global... -
Catalogue Entry: Forest Fire Severity Level, 2050 - 2059
Climate warming can bring more frequent and severe forest fires. This map shows the change in forest fire severity levels across Canada from 2050 to 2059, based on Global... -
Catalogue Entry: Forest Fire Severity Level, 2090-2099
Climate warming can bring more frequent and severe forest fires. This map shows the change in forest fire severity levels across Canada from 2090 to 2099, based on Global... -
Catalogue Entry: Potential Impacts: Sensitivity of River Regions to Climate Change
The most sensitive river regions include the Atlantic coast, the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Valley regions, the Rocky Mountains and the Prairies. The sensitivity projection for... -
Catalogue Entry: Potential Impacts: Sensitivity of Peatlands to Climate Change
The sensitivity of peatlands to climate warming is shown on this map. Peatlands are massive deposits of peat, a material consisting largely of organic residue that acts as a... -
Catalogue Entry: Forest Fire Severity Level, 2090-2099
Climate warming can bring more frequent and severe forest fires. This map shows the change in forest fire severity levels across Canada from 2090 to 2099, based on Global... -
Catalogue Entry: Forest Fire Severity Level, 2050 - 2059
Climate warming can bring more frequent and severe forest fires. This map shows the change in forest fire severity levels across Canada from 2050 to 2059, based on Global... -
Catalogue Entry: Forest Fire Severity Level, 1980 - 1989
Climate warming can bring more frequent and severe forest fires. This map shows the change in forest fire severity levels across Canada from 1980 to 1989, based on Global... -
Catalogue Entry: Water yield variability index, selected drainage regions, 1971 to 2013
This product provides the variability index for selected drainage regions in Canada. Variability is measured using a coefficient of variation (CV) to compare all months over a... -
Catalogue Entry: Ratio of surface freshwater intake to water yield, by drainage region, 2013
This product provides the ratio of surface freshwater intake to water yield for August 2013, with the exception of drainage regions 7, 8, 16, 17 and 18, which use the ratio of... -
Catalogue Entry: Median values of monthly maximum turbidity in raw surface water sources by...
This product provides the median of monthly maximum turbidity values (in nephelometric turbidity units) for drinking water facilities by drainage region. Turbidity refers to the... -
Catalogue Entry: Population size and variation of 2016 forest sector-based communities, 2001 to 2016
This product provides population counts for 2001 and 2016 for 105 census subdivisions (CSDs) for which the forest sector is a major source of employment income—defined by... -
Catalogue Entry: Permafrost, Atlas of Canada, 5th Edition
Contained within the 5th Edition (1978 to 1995) of the National Atlas of Canada has a large that shows the extent of permafrost and abundance of ground ice; mapping units are... -
Catalogue Entry: Wild Bird Health and Contaminants, Oil Sands Region
Aquatic bird eggs are being collected for contaminants analysis. Egg collections in the Peace-Athabasca Delta area support Parks Canada’s activities at Wood Buffalo National... -
Catalogue Entry: Plant Health and Contaminants, Oil Sands Region
Plant health assessments and vegetation surveys are undertaken at both terrestrial and wetland sites in the oil sands region and in reference areas. Plant monitoring is being... -
Catalogue Entry: Surface Water Quality, Oil Sands Region
The surface water quality (WQ) program, as part of the Joint Canada/Alberta Implementation Plan, is designed to improve the ability to detect change and predict effects in...