{ "culture": "en-CA", "name": "", "guid": "", "catalogPath": "", "snippet": "This dataset was created to support the 1998 Revision of the NWT Wildlife Act and the applicable Regulations to ensure that the boundary of any wildlife area was accurately mapped at a scale of 1:250,000. These boundaries are described in the Wildlife Preserves Regulations. Note: The Norah Willis Michener Wildlife Preserve (D/WP/01) is very small and is along the NWT/Yukon border.\n\nNTS hard copy map sheets were used as the basis for drafting the boundaries. The data collection and digitizing started in 1995. Data compilation started in 1996. This data has not been updated since 1996.\n\nThe NWT was divided into 23 Management Units, Zones and Areas for the purpose of conserving and managing wildlife in the NWT. These boundaries are named and may be subdivided or overlap to meet specific management requirements. These boundaries are updated as required for wildlife management. The original data did include boundaries for National Parks, Migratory Bird Sanctuaries, Thelon Wildlife and Mackenzie Bison Sanctuaries which have been moved to the Conservation Areas portion of the SDE. \n\nNOTE: The original intent of these boundaries was that where they were based on final land claim boundaries that the wildlife management area boundary would also follow the land claim boundary. This did not always occur and there are some locations where the boundaries do not match. Both sets of boundaries are correct as they have both been legally described. This Act is in the process of being updated. The corresponding Regulations will be updated once the Act has been adopted and these discrepancies will be removed.", "description": "

As part of the 1998 Wildlife Act, all Wildlife Management boundaries were digitally produced at a scale of 1:250,000. Previous maps of the Wildlife Management boundaries were manually drafted on maps at a scale of 1:4,000,000. The data has the potential to be used for a variety of other wildlife management purposes. These boundaries have been legally described as part of the Wildlife Act Regulations. These boundaries have been used as the basis of the maps used for the annual Hunting Regulations Maps. <\/SPAN><\/P>

NOTE: The original intent of these boundaries was that where they were based on final land claim boundaries that the wildlife management area boundary would also follow the land claim boundary. This did not always occur and there are some locations where the boundaries do not match. Both sets of boundaries are correct as they have both been legally described. This Act is in the process of being updated. The corresponding Regulations will be updated once the Act has been adopted and these discrepancies will be removed.<\/SPAN><\/P>

The data was originally drafted onto hard-copy 1:250,000 NTS map sheets and then was digitized into AutoCAD drawing files in 1995. All original digital data was received 13th of November, 1995 in AutoCAD DXF files. The data was converted to ARC/INFO coverage format.<\/SPAN><\/P>

All theme layers were digitized by map sheet. They were separated into the individual theme layers and merged together. Some data was missing so non-linear data was digitized from the hard copy maps into the Roots digitizing system and then converted to ARC/INFO coverages. If the data were straight lines, lat/long coordinates were used to create a line file. All missing data was then merged with the original coverages. All polygons were closed and centroids added and then cleaned to establish topology.<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/P>

The original coverage datasets included line attributes that detailed the source of all line segments that made up each boundary and the polygon attributes included the name and any specific attributes of each feature.<\/SPAN><\/P>

The bulk of the data layers were initially current as of 1996, however there were some layers that did have 1997 updates prior to the passing of the Act. Since then individual layers have had updates based on management requirements and corresponding changes to the Wildlife Regulations.. The individual theme layer metadata will record any updates.<\/SPAN><\/P>

The original coverages had limited distribution and it was decided in June 2001, that most users would not need to know the original of every line segment and so the linework was compiled into fewer line segments and the source information was dropped. The data was available afterwards as shapefiles. The original linework source data is available if required.<\/SPAN><\/P>

All boundaries that are considered Conservation Areas (Migratory Bird Sanctuaries, National Parks, Proposed National Parks, Thelon Wildlife Sanctuary (NWT and Nunavut portions) and Mackenzie Bison Sanctuary) were previously part of this dataset and are now found as part of the Conservation Areas dataset found in the SDE: Environment_ConservationAreas.<\/SPAN><\/P>

Data was originally stored in WLFEPR96 Arc/Info coverage.<\/SPAN><\/P><\/DIV><\/DIV><\/DIV>", "summary": "This dataset was created to support the 1998 Revision of the NWT Wildlife Act and the applicable Regulations to ensure that the boundary of any wildlife area was accurately mapped at a scale of 1:250,000. These boundaries are described in the Wildlife Preserves Regulations. Note: The Norah Willis Michener Wildlife Preserve (D/WP/01) is very small and is along the NWT/Yukon border.\n\nNTS hard copy map sheets were used as the basis for drafting the boundaries. The data collection and digitizing started in 1995. Data compilation started in 1996. This data has not been updated since 1996.\n\nThe NWT was divided into 23 Management Units, Zones and Areas for the purpose of conserving and managing wildlife in the NWT. These boundaries are named and may be subdivided or overlap to meet specific management requirements. These boundaries are updated as required for wildlife management. The original data did include boundaries for National Parks, Migratory Bird Sanctuaries, Thelon Wildlife and Mackenzie Bison Sanctuaries which have been moved to the Conservation Areas portion of the SDE. \n\nNOTE: The original intent of these boundaries was that where they were based on final land claim boundaries that the wildlife management area boundary would also follow the land claim boundary. This did not always occur and there are some locations where the boundaries do not match. Both sets of boundaries are correct as they have both been legally described. This Act is in the process of being updated. The corresponding Regulations will be updated once the Act has been adopted and these discrepancies will be removed.", "title": "WMS.DBO.BND_ENR_WFE_WildlifePreservesV3", "tags": [ "NWT Wildlife Management Areas", "NWT Wildlife Act", "NWT Wildlife Regulations", "Wildlife Preserves", "Wildlife Preserves Regulations" ], "type": "", "typeKeywords": [], "thumbnail": "", "url": "", "minScale": 5000000, "maxScale": 50000, "spatialReference": "", "accessInformation": "Cathie Harper NWTCG \n\nCITATION: Wildlife Management Regulations, NWT Centre for Geomatics, Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Government of the Northwest Territories, 1998.", "licenseInfo": "

COPYRIGHT: The NWT Centre for Geomatics releases this data with the following conditions: 1. The data will not be copied or redistributed in whole or part to any third parties. 2. That NWT Centre for Geomatics, ENR, GNWT is acknowledged as the author. 3. NWT Centre for Geomatics, ENR, GNWT retains exclusive rights, title and ownership of this data. Data can be freely distributed after potential users have signed the NWTCG Data Sharing Agreement.<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/P>

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