Forest Protection Area

Alberta Environment and Protected Areas, Government of Alberta 20200903 Forest Protection Area vector digital data Edmonton, Alberta Alberta Environment and Protected Areas, Government of Alberta BASEFEAT.BF_GEO_FOR_PROT_AREA_POLYGON https://geospatial.alberta.ca/titan/rest/services/boundary/asrd_administrative_area/MapServer The Forest Protection Area dataset is comprised of all the polygons that represent the administrative areas established by Forest Protection, Forestry Division of Alberta Agriculture and Forestry concerned with the prevention and control of damage to forests from fire, insects, disease and other harmful agents. The Forest Protection Area dataset provides users with GIS ready polygonal representation of all Forest Protection areas in the province of Alberta, and is suitable for indexing or analysis purposes. Defining document is the Forest and Prairie Protection Act, Forest Protection Area Regulation (AR 149/99) and Forest Recreation Amendment Regulation. The Forest Protection Area shall not overlap with Non-Permit Area dataset. Default for boundary along river is Right bank downstream. In cases, there are areas of Forest Protection Areas that overlap with Non-Permit Areas. This is due to discrepancies in the descriptions of both Regulations. Data Authority is required to review and amend both Regulations. en 20070701 ground condition Complete As needed -121.000000 -109.000000 61.000000 48.000000 -121.000000 -109.000000 48.000000 61.000000 ISO 19115 Topic Category boundaries none Forest Protection Area Forest Protection Areas Forest Protection Zone Forest Protection Zones Forest Protection To access the data you must agree to the terms of the Open Government Licence - Alberta Your use of the information will be governed by the terms of the Open Government Licence - Alberta, in force as of the date you accessed the information. Alberta Environment and Protected Areas, Government of Alberta Provincial Geospatial Centre mailing and physical address

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Edmonton Alberta T5K 2J6 Canada 7804220712 PGC.Metadata@gov.ab.ca 08:15 to 16:30 Monday to Friday This is the point of contact regarding the creation of, and characteristics of, the dataset. Queries about the creation and/or characteristics of the dataset submitted through facsimile or electronic mail must include the salutation "Attention: Provincial Geospatial Centre; Dataset: Forest Protection Area". For Distribution Information contact instructions, refer to the Distribution Information section of this metadata record. For Metadata Information contact instructions, refer to the Metadata Reference Information section of this metadata record. Alberta Environment and Protected Areas, Government of Alberta Government of Alberta Data and Information Security Classification Public Microsoft Windows XP Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 3; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.3.1.4000 SDE Feature Class Alberta Environment and Protected Areas, Government of Alberta Base Features Source Data Edmonton, Alberta Alberta Environment and Protected Areas, Government of Alberta Base Features Source Data includes arc layers of ATS, Hydrography, Hypsography, Access and Master Height of Land Alberta Data Partnerships Ltd. Alberta Data Partnerships Cadastral Source Data includes block, lot, plan, ownership, right-of-way and legal subdivision arcs Calgary, Alberta Alberta Data Partnerships Ltd. Alberta Environment and Protected Areas, Government of Alberta Other sources include digital reference file and constructed arcs Edmonton, Alberta Alberta Environment and Protected Areas, Government of Alberta Alberta Environment and Protected Areas, Government of Alberta Base Features Geoadministrative Areas Provincial Boundary and National Park Edmonton, Alberta Alberta Environment and Protected Areas, Government of Alberta Forest Protection Area boundary is built by selecting and putting available Source Data (described below) into an edit environment of the layer, to assemble the Geoadministrative Areas (GA) boundary. The GA boundary built uses Base Features (BF) Source Data which includes arc layers of Alberta Township System (ATS), Hydrography, Hypsography and Access. In cases where BF Source Data does not exist, Alberta Data Partnerships (ADP) Cadastral Source Data including block, lot, plan, ownership and right-of-way are used. Legal Subdivision (LSD) arcs supplied by ADP are also used. ATS data layer is considered to be the foundation by which all other Source Data should be registered with when the GA boundary layer is compiled. The Cadastral Source Data maintained by ADP is used in the hierarchy order of block, lot, plan and right-of-way; regardless which version it is. The ADP cadastral representation of ATS and Hydrography is not used. The ADP LSD arcs are used for boundary segments that are interpreted as aligning with legal subdivision lines according to the defining document, but the representation of Section, Quarter Section and Road Allowance are not allowed to be used as these lines should be derived from the BF ATS Source Data. If none of the above Source Data is available and the defining document refers a specific elevation or contour, Hypsography contour data is used. If no source arc for the particular contour or elevation exists, interpolation of the contours or elevation graphically is obtained by averaging between successive contours on either side of the range of elevation values. If the defining document describes a mountain peak, interpretation of the contours to determine the highest point of the peak is determined or in certain cases a spot height point in the Hypsography cartographic layer is used to identify the peak. If the defining document describes a boundary segment as Height-of-Land (HOL), HOL data is captured by digitization or graphical construction. In cases if the GA boundary is described, but no Source Data is available except from a digital reference file provided by data authority, with data authority's expressed permission, arcs are copied from the digital reference file. Segments of the boundary which adjoin to Provincial Boundary or National Park, arcs are copied from these 2 layers to define the GA boundary so that the layer does conform to these 2 key layers. Once all the Source Data has been copied and put into the edit environment, Constructed arcs are used to close polygon in cases where a gap between 2 Source Data arcs exceeds 0.001 meters. If a gap is less than 0.001 meters, one of the Source Data is extended to close the polygon, in accordance with the Source Data edit hierarchy i.e. with the highest order of importance to the least importance which is in the order of ATS, Hydrography, Hypsography, ADP data, Access, Height-of-Land or digitized arcs and digital reference file. Spatial relationship of the boundary layer compiled is maintained with the Base Features (BF) Source data and other Source Data with the geometry of all the Source Data remains unaltered throughout the editing process. Edit tolerance is set to zero for node snap and arc snap. The GA polygons compiled have all the linework precisely closed. Attribute tables are created according to item definition, with only one label point exists per GA polygon. Clean processes on the Source Data beyond the tolerances specified above is prohibited. Source Data is edited manually in order to maintain polygon topology using BUILD processes. After polygons are built, they are attributed according to the Base Features GA Specification table standard i.e. CODE and NAME. Provincial Geospatial Centre PGC.Metadata@gov.ab.ca Alberta Environment and Protected Areas, Government of Alberta 20000331 Initial compilation Provincial Geospatial Centre PGC.Metadata@gov.ab.ca Alberta Environment and Protected Areas, Government of Alberta 200103 Reconciled to ATS v4.1 Provincial Geospatial Centre PGC.Metadata@gov.ab.ca Alberta Environment and Protected Areas, Government of Alberta 200707 Reconciled and conformed to ATS V4.1 Alberta Provincial Boundary which was compiled by Alberta Data Partnerships Ltd. (ADP) on behalf of the Government of Alberta (GOA). The ATS V4.1 Alberta Provincial Boundary is considered definitive for GOA use which supersedes all previous versions. The ATS V4.1 Alberta Provincial Boundary was compiled in 8th decimal place geographic coordinates (GCS_North_American_1983) and which was geoprocessed to NAD 1983 10 TM AEP Forest coordinate system, using ESRI ArcGIS application. Provincial Geospatial Centre PGC.Metadata@gov.ab.ca Alberta Environment and Protected Areas, Government of Alberta 201109 Update western boundary of Forest Protection Area, initiated by the National Park boundary adjustment in vicinity from Ogre Canyon to Boule Roche i.e. in the area of Sec 7-50-27-w5 to Sec 13-50-28-w5. Provincial Geospatial Centre PGC.Metadata@gov.ab.ca Alberta Environment and Protected Areas, Government of Alberta 201702 Removed extra polygons erroneously introduced instead of holes in existing polygons. Provincial Geospatial Centre PGC.Metadata@gov.ab.ca Alberta Environment and Protected Areas, Government of Alberta 201810 Update due to provincial polygon boundary changes, completed by Wildfire team Provincial Geospatial Centre PGC.Metadata@gov.ab.ca Alberta Environment and Protected Areas, Government of Alberta 20200901 Vector G-polygon 3 Simple Polygon FALSE 3 TRUE FALSE 0.00000001 0.00000001 Decimal degrees North American Datum of 1983 Geodetic Reference System 80 6378137.000000 298.257222 GCS_North_American_1983 1.000000 Explicit elevation coordinate included with horizontal coordinates BaseFeatures.GDB.BF_GEO_FOR_PROT_AREA_POLYGON Feature Class 8 Alberta Environment and Protected Areas, Government of Alberta Forest and Prairie Protection Act, Forest Protection Area Regulation (AR 149/99) and Forest Recreation Amendment Regulation FPA_NAME Forest Protection Area name Base Features Geoadministrative Areas Specification Alberta Environment and Protected Areas Alberta Environment and Protected Areas FPA_NAME String 80 0 0 FPA_CODE A sequential unique alphanumeric code number Base Features Geoadministrative Areas Specification Alberta Environment and Protected Areas Alberta Environment and Protected Areas FPA_CODE String 5 0 0 SHAPE Feature geometry. ESRI Coordinates defining the features. SHAPE Geometry 4 0 0 OBJECTID Internal feature number. ESRI Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated. OBJECTID OID 4 10 0 SHAPE.AREA SHAPE.AREA Double 0 0 0 SHAPE.LEN SHAPE.LEN Double 0 0 0 Altalis Ltd. mailing and physical address

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9820 - 106 Street NW