Seeing Red v. 2.0: BC’s Last Primary Forests
Web mapping application to highlight industrial disturbance and private land on primary forests in British Columbia.
Primary forest is natural forest of any age. Primary forest includes forest disturbed naturally, for example by wildfire, insects or wind, but excludes forest that has been degraded by logging, roads, or other industrial human activities. Not all primary forest is old, but all old growth in BC is primary forest.
Park and protected area boundaries are black.
We used the Vegetation Resource Inventory data to define the forested landscape as lands having a site index of over 5. We defined lower productivity primary forest as having a site index of 5 to 10, and higher productivity primary forest as having a site index of 10 +. The industrially disturbed lands layer includes existing and approved cutblocks, roads, pipeline right of ways, major mines, transmission lines, agricultural land, and private land.
Data were downloaded in February, March and November 2020 from the BC Data Catalogue, the BC Oil and Gas Commission Centre portal, and the federal NFIS. Layers used are listed below. Provincial forest inventory data are coarse and this map may not be accurate at fine scales, or accurately depict logging prior to 1985.
Visit us at https://conservationnorth.org/ to find out how you can help protect BC's remaining primary and old growth forests.
Data used:
Harvesting:
Harvested Areas of BC (Consolidated Cutblocks) (2023, Febuary)
RESULTS - Openings svw (2023, January)
Forest Tenure Cutblock Polygons (FTA 4.0) (2023, March)
NFIS Harvest Year / Mask 1985 -2015 (2023, December)
NFIS CA Forest Harvest 1985 -2020 (2023, Febuary 2023)
Forested Areas
VRI - 2019 - Forest Vegetation Composite Rank 1 Layer (R1) (2023, May)
Non Forest excluded-Query: Site Index under 4.9
Low Productivity-Query: Site Index Between 5.0 and 10
Primary forest -Query:Site Index above 10
Additional Data
ParcelMap BC Parcel Fabric (2020, May)
Digital Road Atlas (DRA) - Master Partially-Attributed Roads (2020, May)
Permitted Mine Areas - Major MineBC (2020 March)
Transmission Lines (2020, May)
Pipeline Segments (Permitted) (2020, Oct)
Pipeline Rights of Way (Permitted) (2020, Oct)
BC Parks, Ecological Reserves, and Protected Areas (2020, May)
National Parks of Canada within British Columbia (2020, March)
Datasets available for download
This dataset has no data
Additional Info
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Last Updated | March 24, 2026, 21:08 (UTC) |
| Created | March 24, 2026, 21:08 (UTC) |
|
Domain / Topic
Domain or topic of the dataset being cataloged.
|
|
|
Title
Title for the Dataset.
|
Seeing Red v. 2.0: BC’s Last Primary Forests |
|
Description
A description of the dataset.
|
Web mapping application to highlight industrial disturbance and private land on primary forests in British Columbia. Primary forest is natural forest of any age. Primary forest includes forest disturbed naturally, for example by wildfire, insects or wind, but excludes forest that has been degraded by logging, roads, or other industrial human activities. Not all primary forest is old, but all old growth in BC is primary forest. Park and protected area boundaries are black. We used the Vegetation Resource Inventory data to define the forested landscape as lands having a site index of over 5. We defined lower productivity primary forest as having a site index of 5 to 10, and higher productivity primary forest as having a site index of 10 +. The industrially disturbed lands layer includes existing and approved cutblocks, roads, pipeline right of ways, major mines, transmission lines, agricultural land, and private land. Data were downloaded in February, March and November 2020 from the BC Data Catalogue, the BC Oil and Gas Commission Centre portal, and the federal NFIS. Layers used are listed below. Provincial forest inventory data are coarse and this map may not be accurate at fine scales, or accurately depict logging prior to 1985. Visit us at https://conservationnorth.org/ to find out how you can help protect BC's remaining primary and old growth forests. Data used: Harvesting: Harvested Areas of BC (Consolidated Cutblocks) (2023, Febuary) RESULTS - Openings svw (2023, January) Forest Tenure Cutblock Polygons (FTA 4.0) (2023, March) NFIS Harvest Year / Mask 1985 -2015 (2023, December) NFIS CA Forest Harvest 1985 -2020 (2023, Febuary 2023) Forested Areas VRI - 2019 - Forest Vegetation Composite Rank 1 Layer (R1) (2023, May) Non Forest excluded-Query: Site Index under 4.9 Low Productivity-Query: Site Index Between 5.0 and 10 Primary forest -Query:Site Index above 10 Additional Data ParcelMap BC Parcel Fabric (2020, May) Digital Road Atlas (DRA) - Master Partially-Attributed Roads (2020, May) Permitted Mine Areas - Major MineBC (2020 March) Transmission Lines (2020, May) Pipeline Segments (Permitted) (2020, Oct) Pipeline Rights of Way (Permitted) (2020, Oct) BC Parks, Ecological Reserves, and Protected Areas (2020, May) National Parks of Canada within British Columbia (2020, March) |
|
Tags / Keywords
Keywords/tags categorizing the dataset.
|
|
|
Format (CSV, XLS, TXT, PDF, etc)
File format of the dataset.
|
|
|
Dataset Size
Dataset size in megabytes.
|
200.32 |
|
Metadata Identifier
Metadata identifier – can be used as the unique identifier for catalogue entry
|
|
|
Published Date
Published date of the dataset.
|
2020-10-17 |
|
Time Period Data Span (start date)
Start date of the data in the dataset.
|
|
|
Time Period Data Span (end date)
End date of time data in the dataset.
|
|
|
GeoSpatial Area Data Span
A spatial region or named place the dataset covers.
|
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
|
Access category
Type of access granted for the dataset (open, closed, service, etc).
|
public |
|
License
License used to access the dataset.
|
License not specified |
|
Limits on use
Limits on use of data.
|
|
|
Location
Location of the dataset.
|
https://climate.esri.ca/datasets/d1620f43f9084a99a4921e5e8b9b98dd |
|
Data Service
Data service for accessing a dataset.
|
|
|
Owner
Owner of the dataset.
|
ConservationN6 |
|
Contact Point
Who to contact regarding access?
|
|
|
Contact Point Email
The email to contact regarding access?
|
|
|
Publisher
Publisher of the dataset.
|
|
|
Publisher Email
Email of the publisher.
|
|
|
Author
Author of the dataset.
|
ConservationN6 |
|
Author Email
Email of the author.
|
|
|
Accessed At
Date the data and metadata was accessed.
|
2024-01-30 |
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
|
Identifier
Unique identifier for the dataset.
|
d1620f43f9084a99a4921e5e8b9b98dd |
|
Language
Language(s) of the dataset
|
English |
|
Link to dataset description
A URL to an external document describing the dataset.
|
https://climate.esri.ca/datasets/d1620f43f9084a99a4921e5e8b9b98dd |
|
Persistent Identifier
Data is identified by a persistent identifier.
|
|
|
Globally Unique Identifier
Data is identified by a persistent and globally unique identifier.
|
|
|
Contains data about individuals
Does the data hold data about individuals?
|
|
|
Contains data about identifiable individuals
Does the data hold identifiable data about individual?
|
|
|
Contains Indigenous Data
Does the data hold data about Indigenous communities?
|
|
|
Portal Type
Platform type of the source portal.
|
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
|
Version
Version of the datatset
|
None |
|
Source
Source of the dataset.
|
None |
|
Version notes
Version notes about the dataset.
|
|
|
Is version of another dataset
Link to dataset that it is a version of.
|
|
|
Other versions
Link to datasets that are versions of it.
|
|
|
Provenance Text
Provenance Text of the data.
|
|
|
Provenance URL
Provenance URL of the data.
|
|
|
Temporal resolution
Describes how granular the date/time data in the dataset is.
|
|
|
GeoSpatial resolution in meters
Describes how granular (in meters) geospatial data is in the dataset.
|
|
|
GeoSpatial resolution (in regions)
Describes how granular (in regions) geospatial data is in the dataset.
|
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
|
Indigenous Community Permission
Who holds the Indigenous Community Permission. Who to contact regarding access to a dataset that has data about Indigenous communities.
|
|
|
Community Permission
Community permission (who gave permission).
|
|
|
The Indigenous communities the dataset is about
Indigenous communities from which data is derived.
|
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
|
Number of data rows
If tabular dataset, total number of rows.
|
|
|
Number of data columns
If tabular dataset, total number of unique columns.
|
|
|
Number of data cells
If tabular dataset, total number of cells with data.
|
|
|
Number of data relations
If RDF dataset, total number of triples.
|
|
|
Number of entities
If RDF dataset, total number of entities.
|
|
|
Number of data properties
If RDF dataset, total number of unique properties used by the triples.
|
|
|
Data quality
Describes the quality of the data in the dataset.
|
|
|
Metric for data quality
A metric used to measure the quality of the data, such as missing values or invalid formats.
|
0 Comments