Government of British Columbia

Water obstacles (rapids, falls, etc)

Set of arbitrary location points, usually set at landmarks (definable points on the lake shoreline such as shoreline points, docks, houses etc) to break the lake into identifiable areas to help fish counting crews to identify where they are on the lake

NOTE This dataset is going to be replaced by the Data Catalogue layer: Forest Inventory Ground Plots - Public Access This new layer links to the updated database for all Forest Analysis and Inventory Branch ground sample plots. Growth and Yield dataset is a provincial data set that comprised of...

Species Distribution Modeling (SDM) and Wildlife Habitat Ratings (WHR) project boundaries contains (study areas) and attributes describing each project (project level metadata), plus links to the locations of other data associated with the project (e.g. reports, WHR polygon datasets, plotfiles)....

Domestic Watersheds for the Kootenay Boundary Landuse Plan (ldws_r4)

Stream water samples are collected as part of the Regional Geochemical Survey (RGS) program, which covers over 80% of British Columbia. An additional 4332 stream and lake water samples were analyzed by ICP-MS, ICP-ES and other methods for trace and minor elements in NTS map areas 082M,...

A Guardrail is a barrier fastened to the end of a bridge abutment, along the shoulder of a road or between travel lanes of opposing traffic. It is a Linear feature

Five riparian classes of wetlands (W1 to W5) based on whether the wetland is a simple wetland or wetland complex, wetland size, and biogeoclimatic unit in which the wetland occurs. Wetland classification is based on the 1995 Forest Practices Code Riparian Management Area Guidebook:...

Existing flood protection works (dikes and bank protection) crest alignment in British Columbia. Updated from available Provincial dike crest survey project data from 2019/2020. If 2019/2020 dike survey project data is unavailable, linework based on previous data from 2004 and prior. May include...

Terrestrial Ecosystem Mapping for Steam Boat Mountain in the Rocky Mountain Forest District (ttem_st)

Lookup table for watershed type codes

Ski Resorts is a point dataset identifying the location of ski resorts in British Columbia.

The spatial representation for a Natural Resource Area. An NR AREA is an amalgamation of all NR Regions within the supplied boundaries and acts as an administrative area to these regions as established by the Ministry. This dataset supersedes WHSE_ADMIN_BOUNDARIES.NRO_ADM_AREAS_SP

Linear coastlines of BC, including mainland and marine islands. Lines are directionalized and connected. Attributes include a hierarchical key and route identifier

Wildlife habitat areas (WHAs) are mapped areas that are necessary to meet the habitat requirements of an Identified Wildlife element. WHAs designate critical habitats in which activities are managed to limit their impact on the Identified Wildlife element for which the area was established. The...

Historical Grassland and Current Grassland = Grassland Benchmark

IDMI project boundary

Community Energy and Emissions Inventory (CEEI) Supporting Indicators Total 1996 Reporting Year by Regional District

This file contains the regional boundaries for the five Ministry regions. It is currently available as a .kmz (a compressed .kml file). The Ministry no longer uses a 'regional' model for service delivery. As such, this is just maintained for historical purposes.

Units dividing the Columbia Basin in to BC Hydro reservoir-based watersheds