Wilderness Area Coordinate system: 4269 - "NAD83" Abstract: Revision Note: Please note that this dataset has been revised and is available from the Land Information Ontario (LIO) Warehouse. A Wilderness Area is an area regulated under the Wilderness Area Act. The Act states that these areas are set aside '...as a wilderness area for the preservation of the area as nearly as may be in its natural state in which research and educational activities may be carried on, for the protection of the flora and fauna, for the improvement of the area, having regard to its historical, aesthetic, scientific or recreational value...' (Source: Wilderness Areas Act) They can be embedded in other protected areas. They range in size and have values from historical to natural heritage but they have no formal class system or management planning. Supplementary tables can be used and are available for download from the additional documentation section.

Additional Documentation

• Metadata Information

  Language: eng; CAN

  Last Update: 2013-03-28

  Other Maintenance Requirements:

  a37bce8d-2b46-467c-8932-4eabe5c28a2f

  Metadata Contact:

  Scholars Portal, Ontario Council of University Libraries Toronto Ontario, Canada

  Contact Instructions:

  gis@scholarsportal.info

  Metadata Standard:

  North American Profile of ISO19115:2003 - Geographic Information

• Citation Information

  
  
  

  Series

  Name: Protected Areas

  
  

  Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources Peterborough Ontario, Canada

  Themes or Categories of the Resource: environment

  Keywords:

  NATURAL HERITAGE, PROTECTION, Wild Area

  PARKS, LAND USE PLANNING, WILDERNESS AREAS

  Wildlife, Faune, Parks, Parc, Conservation, Conservation

  Place Keywords:

  Continent > North America > Canada > Ontario

  Purpose:

  Created for the purpose of displaying areas regulated under the Wilderness Areas Act.

  Dataset Language: eng; CAN

  Status: completed

  Update Frequency: irregular

  Spatial Representation Type: vector

  Processing Environment:

  Based on NRVIS base data - has not had any quality control applied to the boundaries. Originally digitized in 1997 by the Natural Heritage Section of Lands and Waters; Regulation Plan

  Extent

  West Longitude: -93.700684

  East Longitude: -76.831512

  North Latitude: 55.170092

  South Latitude: 42.281719

  
  

  Supplemental Information:

  Legislated or Legal Authority for Collection: Wilderness Areas Act. Additional Time Period Information: Only date on which any wilderness areas were regulated, currently. Data is collected on an on-going basis therefore the time period 'end date' may be more recent than indicated above.

• Spatial Representation - Vector

  Geometric Objects:

  Object Type: composite

  Object Count: 33

• Reference System Information

  Reference System Identifier

  Value: 4269

  Code Space: http://www.epsg-registry.org/

• Data Quality Information

  Scope Level: dataset

  
  

  Process step:

  Not for navigational purposes.

  Regulation Plan for Individual Wilderness Areas (WAs): A regulation plan was prepared by the Office of the Surveyor General. This regulation plan uses NRVIS base data for context. From original date of the Wilderness Areas Act to the date the Act was last edited Data collected from 01/01/1980 to 01/01/1993.

• Distribution Information

  Distributor:

  Ontario Geospatial Data Exchange, Ministry of Natural Resource (OMNR) Peterborough Ontario, Canada