Download: hereIt is a priority of the Saskatchewan and Canadian government to assess and monitor the health and sustainability of Canada's Forest. The North Digital Land Cover Classification (NDLC) will provide Saskatchewan's contribution to Canada's Earth Observation for Sustainable Development of Forests (EOSD) initiative, helping Canada fulfill it's obligation to the Kyoto Protocol. The NDLC supports the mission and directives of the Saskatchewan provincial government by providing an essential dataset which will enable researchers, natural resource managers and government to assess the health and sustainability of our forests, perform research in the area of climate change, manage natural resources and create policy. The NDLC will be based on a combination of Landsat 5 Thematic Mapper (TM) and Landsat 7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper (ETM+) data representing circa 2000 conditions. The NDLC is being produced through a collaboration of federal, provincial, and territorial governments, agencies and industry.

Classification

Value

Background

0

Agriculture

1

Not Assigned

2

Pasture Upland Herbaceous Graminoid

3

Not Assigned

4

Not Assigned

5

Hardwood Open Canopy

6

Hardwood Closed Canopy

7

Jack Pine Closed Canopy

8

Jack Pine Open Canopy

9

Spruce Closed Canopy

10

Spruce Open Canopy

11

Mixed Hardwoods/Softwoods, Softwood/Hardwood Open and Closed Canopy

12

Treed Rock

13

Recent Burn

14

Revegetating/Regenerating Burn

15

Cutovers

16

Water

17

Marsh

18

Herbaceous Fen

19

Mud Sand Saline

20

Shrub Fen

21

Treed Bog

22

Open Bog

23

Not Assigned

24

Settlements/Roads

25

Barren Land

26

Mixed Softwoods Open and Closed

27

Cloud/Shadow/Haze

28

Unclassified

29

1. Background: Where pixels values are equal to 0 in all channels of satellite image data. 1. Agriculture: Cropland and agricultural clearing areas 2. Not Assigned: Empty Class 3. Pasture Upland Herbaceous Graminoid: Lands containing known pastures, tame or native grasses and herbaceous vegetation. May contain low-lying shrubs with less then 10% tree cover.4. Not Assigned: Empty Class 5. Not Assigned: Empty Class 6. Hardwood Open Canopy: Trembling Aspen, White Birch, Balsam Poplar composes greater than 75% of species by area, Crown Closure: greater than 10% and less than or equal to 55% (SE crown closure classes A and B). 7. Hardwood Closed Canopy: Trembling Aspen, White Birch, Balsam Poplar composes greater than 75% of species by area, Crown Closure: greater than 55% (SE crown closure classes C and D). 8. Jack Pine Closed Canopy: Jack Pine composes greater than 75% of species by area, Crown Closure: greater than 55% (SE crown closure classes C and D). 9. Jack Pine Open Canopy: Jack Pine composes greater than 75% of species by area, Crown Closure: greater than 10 and less than or equal to 55% (SE crown closure classes C and D). 10. Spruce Closed Canopy: White Spruce, Black Spruce composes greater than 75% of species by area, Crown Closure: greater than 55% (SE crown closure classes C and D). 11. Spruce Open Canopy: White Spruce, Black Spruce composes greater than 75% of species by area, Crown Closure: greater than 10 and less than or equal to 55% (SE crown closure classes C and D). 12. Mixed Hardwoods/Softwoods, Softwood/Hardwood Open and Closed Canopy: An area of hardwood and softwood combinations in which neither hardwood nor softwood account for greater than 75% of species by area and where the crown closure is greater than 10%. 13. Treed Rock: Forest vegetation less than 10%. 14. Recent Burn: An area showing evidence of recent burning natural or prescribed and there is little to no regeneration or revegetation visible. 15. Revegetating/Regenerating Burn: An area showing evidence of natural or prescribed burning and where regeneration or revegetation is visible. 16. Cutovers: An area of deforestation, vegetated and non-vegetated. Ancillary data required to correctly classify due to the anthropogenic land cover/land use class. 17. Water: These areas include lakes, rivers, streams, and reservoirs. 18. Marsh: A periodically wet or continually flooded but non peat-forming area supporting grasses, sedges and reeds. 19. Herbaceous Fen: A wetland area consisting of nutrient rich water and decomposing peat supporting vascular and nonvascular plants grasses, sedges, and reeds. 20. Mud Sand Saline: Water saturated soil, salt water and sand containing no vegetation. 21. Shrub Fen: A wetland area consisting of nutrient rich water and decomposing peat supporting low shrubs, forbs, grass, moss, and a sparse tree cover. 22. Treed Bog: A wetland area consisting of decomposing peat moss, lichen and shrubs with 10% to 25% tree cover of stunted black spruce and tamarack. 23. Open Bog: A wetland area consisting of low nutrient water and decomposing peat moss, lichen, and sparse tree cover. 24. Not Assigned: Empty Class 25. Settlements/Roads: Anthropogenic land cover consisting of urban, commercial, industrial, major roads, highways, surface mines, gravel pits and spoil piles. 26. Barren Land: With the exception of the settlements and Roads class, any area of exposed rock, soil or non-vegetated land. 27. Mixed Softwoods Open and Closed: Jack Pine/Spruce, Spruce/Jack Pine Open and Closed, an area of softwood combinations in which neither Jack Pine or Spruce account for greater than 75% of species by area and where crown closure is greater than 10%. 28. Cloud/Shadow/Haze: An area of cloud, shadow, haze. 29. Unclassified: An area of unidentifiable land cover, indicates no work done/not classified, wrong information, missing data and possible new class greater than 3 pixels.

This data provides the integrated cadastral framework for the specified Canada Land. The cadastral framework consists of active and superseded cadastral parcel, roads, easements, administrative areas, active lines, points and annotations. The cadastral lines form the boundaries of the parcels. COGO attributes are associated to the lines and depict the adjusted framework of the cadastral fabric. The cadastral annotations consist of lot numbers, block numbers, township numbers, etc. The cadastral framework is compiled from Canada Lands Survey Records (CLSR), Registration Plans (RS) and Location Sketches (LS) archived in the Canada Lands Survey Records.

The Saskatchewan Digital Land Cover raster provides a seamless provincial coverage of the province and was created by combining the Saskatchewan Research Council's Northern Digital Land Cover (NDLC) with the Southern Digital Land Cover (SDLC). With exception to the SDLC's value 2 (i.e. Hay Crops) and value 3 (i.e. Native Dominant Grass Lands), the NDLC takes precedence over the SDLC in areas that the two rasters overlap because the NDLC is more current than the dated SDLC. The SDLC's values 2 and 3 were preserved because these land covers are not specifically represented in the NDLC. For the purpose of this dataset, some of the SDLC and NDLC values were reclassified to new values to reconcile varying definitions. It should also be noted that because the NDLC's 30 x 30 metre pixels do not align with the SDLC's 30 x 30 metre pixels, this raster was snapped to the NDLC. Last, as is with the SDLC and the NDLC, the extent of this raster does not extend all of the way to the Saskatchewan boundary, specifically, the Information Services Corporation's SaskGIS Provincial Boundary dataset, in numerous areas along the west, south and southeast borders: There are gaps of up to 500 m wide of "no data" between the provincial boundary and the raster along these areas of the Saskatchewan boundary.

Classification

Value

AGRICULTURE

1

HAY CROPS

2

NATIVE DOMINANT GRASSLANDS

3

TALL SHRUBS

4

PASTURE

5

HARDWOODS (OPEN CANOPY)

6

HARDWOODS (CLOSED CANOPY)

7

JACKPINE (CLOSED CANOPY)

8

JACKPINE (OPEN CANOPY)

9

SPRUCE (CLOSED CANOPY)

10

SPRUCE (OPEN CANOPY)

11

MIXED WOODS

12

TREED ROCK

13

RECENT BURNS

14

REVEGETATING/REGENERATION BURN

15

CUTOVERS

16

WATER

17

MARSH

18

HERBACEOUS FEN

19

MUD/SAND/SALINE

20

SHRUB FEN (TREED SWAMP)

21

TREED BOG

22

OPEN BOG

23

FARMSTEAD

24

UNCLASSIFIED

25

BARREN LAND

26

MIXED SOFTWOODS (OPEN & CLOSED)

27

PASTURE UPLAND HERBACEOUS GRAMINOID

30

1. AGRICULTURE - Cropland, including all lands dedicated to the production of annual cereal, oil seed, and other specialty crops, and typically cultivated on an annual basis; and agricultural clearing areas. 2. HAY CROPS (Forage) - Alfalfa and alfalfa/tame grass mixtures. 3. NATIVE DOMINANT GRASSLANDS - Native dominant grasslands. (May contain tame grasses and herbs.) 4. TALL SHRUBS - Communities containing both low and tall shrub, snowberry, saskatoon, chokecherry, buffaloberry, and willow. 5. PASTURE (Seeded Grass Lands) - Grassland dominated by tame grass species. 6. HARDWOODS (I.E. OPEN CANOPY) - Greater than 75% hardwoods by area, including trembling aspen, white birch, balsam poplar; 10 - 55% crown closure. 7. HARDWOODS (I.E. CLOSED CANOPY) - Greater than 75% hardwoods by area, including trembling aspen, white birch, balsam poplar; Greater than 55% crown closure. 8. JACKPINE (I.E. CLOSED CANOPY) - Greater than 75% of Jack Pine by area; Greater than 55% crown closure. 9. JACKPINE (I.E. OPEN CANOPY) - Greater than 75% of Jack Pine by area; 10 - 55% crown closure. 10. SPRUCE (I.E. CLOSED CANOPY) - Greater than 75% or greater Black and White Spruce; Greater than 55% crown closure. 11. SPRUCE (I.E. OPEN CANOPY) - Greater than 75% Black and White Spruce; 10-55% crown closure. 12. MIXED WOODS - All softwood/hardwood mixtures; open and closed canopy (i.e. An area of hardwood and softwood combinations in which neither hardwood nor softwood account for greater than 75% of species by area, and where the crown closure is greater than 10%). 13. TREED ROCK - Areas of exposed bedrock with generally less then 10% tree cover. 14. RECENT BURNS - An area showing evidence of recent burning natural or prescribed and there is little to no regeneration or revegetation visible. 15. REVEGETATING/REGENERATION BURN - An area showing evidence of natural or prescribed burning and where regeneration or revegetation is visible. 16. CUTOVERS - An area of deforestation, vegetated and non-vegetated. 17. WATER - These areas include lakes, rivers, streams and reservoirs 18. MARSH - A periodically wet or continually flooded but non peat-forming area supporting grasses, sedges, and reeds. 19. HERBACEOUS FEN - A wetland area consisting of decomposing peat supporting vascular and nonvascular plants (i.e. grasses, sedges, reeds). 20. MUD/SAND/SALINE - Water saturated soil, sand containing no vegetation, and salt water. 21. SHRUB FEN (I.E. TREED SWAMP) - A wetland area consisting of decomposing peat supporting low shrubs, forbs, grass, moss, and a sparse tree cover. 22. TREED BOG - A wetland area consisting of decomposing peat moss, lichen, and shrubs, with 10% or more canopy by trees (i.e. primarily black spruce and tamarack). 23. OPEN BOG - A wetland area consisting of decomposing peat moss, lichen, and sparse tree cover. 24. FARMSTEAD - Farmsteads, towns, cities, exposed areas with little or no vegetation. 25. UNCLASSIFIED 26. BARREN LAND - Any area of exposed rock, soil, or non-vegetated land. 27. MIXED SOFTWOODS (OPEN & CLOSED) - Jack Pine/Spruce, Spruce/Jack Pine Open and Closed, an area of softwood combinations in which neither Jack Pine or Spruce account for greater than 75% of species by area, and where crown closure is greater than 10%. 30. PASTURE UPLAND HERBACEOUS GRAMINOID - Lands containing known pastures, tame or native grasses, and herbaceous vegetation. These lands may contain low-lying shrubs with less then 10% tree cover.

Download: HereThe Saskatchewan Ministry of Environment, Forest Service Branch, has developed a forest resource inventory (FRI) which meets a variety of strategic and operational planning information needs for the boreal plains. Such needs include information on the general land cover, terrain, and growing stock (height, diameter, basal area, timber volume and stem density) within the provincial forest and adjacent forest fringe. This inventory provides spatially explicit information as 10 m or 20 m raster grids and as vectors polygons for relatively homogeneous forest stands or naturally non-forested areas with a 0.5 ha minimum area and a 2.0 ha median area.Land class - ungeneralized (LC_RAW) describes land areas in one of the eleven types. LC_RAW is available here as a color-mapped 16-bit unsigned integer raster grid in GeoTIFF format with a 10 m pixel resolution. Domain: [1…11].CLASSIFICATIONVALUEREDGREENBLUEWater (WAT)1129212250Upland Forest (FOR)25614260Shrubby Upland (SUL)3102187106Treed Wetland (TWL)412331162Shrubby Wetland (SWL)517171188Open Wetland (OWL)6206147216Treed Rock (TRK)7936455Rock or Sand (RKS)8188170164Grass (GRS)9197225165Agricultural Land (ALA)10230238156Anthropogenic Unclassified (AUC)11189189189Water (WAT): Water that is above the surface of land and in a river, stream, lake, creek, spring, ravine, coulee, canyon, lagoon, swamp, marsh or other watercourse or water body, permanently or intermittently.Upland Forest (FOR): Land that is currently growing, or capable of supporting, a treed upland forest community. Moisture regimes are dry through very moist.Shrubby Upland (SUL): Uplands containing a persistent cover of non-merchantable hardwood tree species and shrubs. This class does not include upland forest types expected to succeed to a treed community following disturbance. This class is distinguished from shrubby wetland on the basis of moisture regime: moisture regimes are dry through very moist.Treed Wetland (TWL): Wetlands containing ≥ 10% tree crown cover, typically greater than two metres tall in absence of recent disturbance. This class includes treed bogs, treed fens, and treed swamps. Moisture regimes are moderately wet to very wet.Shrubby Wetland (SUL): Wetlands and riparian areas containing a persistent cover of non-merchantable hardwood trees and shrubs. This class includes shrub swamps, shrubby bogs and fens. It does not include upland forest types expected to succeed to a treed community following disturbance.Open Wetland (OWL): Wetlands dominated by mosses, grasses, sedges, and small herbaceous plants, often associated with small areas of open water. This class includes marshes and open or graminoid bogs and fens. Moisture regimes are moderately wet to very wet.Treed Rock (TRK): Areas of exposed bedrock interspersed with trees, where tree crown cover ≥ 10% and < 30%. Areas of partially exposed bedrock where crown cover ≥ 30% are classified as upland forest. Areas of exposed bedrock where crown cover <10% are classified as rock or sand.Rock or Sand (RKS): Naturally occurring, barren or exposed, rock, sand, or gravel deposits with <10% of the area occupied by trees.Grass (GRS): Uplands containing a persistent cover of grass and herbs. This class is differentiated from open wetland on the basis of moisture regime. It does not include upland forest types expected to succeed to a treed community following disturbance.Agricultural Land (ALA): A land classification for lands which are cultivated for growing crops, including pasture, orchards and abandoned fields. Lands designated as provincial forests cannot be assigned this classification, however this class of land may be found within or adjacent to the mapped boundaries of provincial forests.Anthropogenic Unclassified (AUC): Areas which are non-forested due to vegetation clearing and/or building. This includes built-up areas, camps, roads, railways, mines, utility corridors, gravel pits, and similar human-caused disturbances. With the exception of permanent roads used to access timber, timber harvests are not included as anthropogenic unclassified.For more information, see the Forest Inventory Standard of the Saskatchewan Environmental Code, Forest Inventory Chapter.

Private map (managed forest code 50) used in the Story Map of Forest Management in Canada, 2017.Private lands were identified using provincial and territorial land ownership datasets. Detailed ownership datasets were not available in all jurisdictions, so proxies were used where necessary. In Saskatchewan, lands south of the province's Commercial Forest Zone were classified as Private. This includes some Crown lands, but these are generally small and not included in forest management plans or leased for commercial forestry purposes.Source: This web map shows the private areas used in the map of forest management in Canada, 2017 and includes the following tiled layer:Private (Managed Forest Code 50)Data provided by Alberta Agriculture and Forestry; British Columbia Ministry of Forests; Manitoba Sustainable Development; Natural Resources Canada; New Brunswick Department of Energy and Resource Development; Newfoundland & Labrador Department of Fisheries and Land Resources; Northwest Territories Department of Environment and Natural Resources; Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forestry; Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry; Prince Edward Island Department of Communities, Land & Environment; Québec Ministère des Forêts, de la Faune et des Parcs; Saskatchewan Ministry of Environment; and Yukon Energy, Mines and Resources.

Generalized land classification in one of eleven types. Available here as a land class raster (GeoTIF) with a 10 m pixel resolution. Download: Here The Saskatchewan Ministry of Environment, Forest Service Branch, has developed a forest resource inventory (FRI) which meets a variety of strategic and operational planning information needs for the boreal plains. Such needs include information on the general land cover, terrain, and growing stock (height, diameter, basal area, timber volume and stem density) within the provincial forest and adjacent forest fringe. This inventory provides spatially explicit information as 10 m or 20 m raster grids and as vectors polygons for relatively homogeneous forest stands or naturally non-forested areas with a 0.5 ha minimum area and a 2.0 ha median area. Land class - generalized (LC_GEN) describes land areas in one of the eleven types. LC_GEN is available here as a color-mapped 16-bit unsigned integer raster grid in GeoTIFF format with a 10 m pixel resolution. Domain: [1…11]. CLASSIFICATION VALUE RED GREEN BLUE Water (WAT) 1 129 212 250 Upland Forest (FOR) 2 56 142 60 Shrubby Upland (SUL) 3 102 187 106 Treed Wetland (TWL) 4 123 31 162 Shrubby Wetland (SWL) 5 171 71 188 Open Wetland (OWL) 6 206 147 216 Treed Rock (TRK) 7 93 64 55 Rock or Sand (RKS) 8 188 170 164 Grass (GRS) 9 197 225 165 Agricultural Land (ALA) 10 230 238 156 Anthropogenic Unclassified (AUC) 11 189 189 189 Water (WAT): Water that is above the surface of land and in a river, stream, lake, creek, spring, ravine, coulee, canyon, lagoon, swamp, marsh or other watercourse or water body, permanently or intermittently. Upland Forest (FOR): Land that is currently growing, or capable of supporting, a treed upland forest community. Moisture regimes are dry through very moist. Shrubby Upland (SUL): Uplands containing a persistent cover of non-merchantable hardwood tree species and shrubs. This class does not include upland forest types expected to succeed to a treed community following disturbance. This class is distinguished from shrubby wetland on the basis of moisture regime: moisture regimes are dry through very moist. Treed Wetland (TWL): Wetlands containing ≥ 10% tree crown cover, typically greater than two metres tall in absence of recent disturbance. This class includes treed bogs, treed fens, and treed swamps. Moisture regimes are moderately wet to very wet. Shrubby Wetland (SUL): Wetlands and riparian areas containing a persistent cover of non-merchantable hardwood trees and shrubs. This class includes shrub swamps, shrubby bogs and fens. It does not include upland forest types expected to succeed to a treed community following disturbance. Open Wetland (OWL): Wetlands dominated by mosses, grasses, sedges, and small herbaceous plants, often associated with small areas of open water. This class includes marshes and open or graminoid bogs and fens. Moisture regimes are moderately wet to very wet. Treed Rock (TRK): Areas of exposed bedrock interspersed with trees, where tree crown cover ≥ 10% and < 30%. Areas of partially exposed bedrock where crown cover ≥ 30% are classified as upland forest. Areas of exposed bedrock where crown cover <10% are classified as rock or sand. Rock or Sand (RKS): Naturally occurring, barren or exposed, rock, sand, or gravel deposits with <10% of the area occupied by trees. Grass (GRS): Uplands containing a persistent cover of grass and herbs. This class is differentiated from open wetland on the basis of moisture regime. It does not include upland forest types expected to succeed to a treed community following disturbance. Agricultural Land (ALA): A land classification for lands which are cultivated for growing crops, including pasture, orchards and abandoned fields. Lands designated as provincial forests cannot be assigned this classification, however this class of land may be found within or adjacent to the mapped boundaries of provincial forests. Anthropogenic Unclassified (AUC): Areas which are non-forested due to vegetation clearing and/or building. This includes built-up areas, camps, roads, railways, mines, utility corridors, gravel pits, and similar human-caused disturbances. With the exception of permanent roads used to access timber, timber harvests are not included as anthropogenic unclassified. For more information, see the Forest Inventory Standard of the Saskatchewan Environmental Code, Forest Inventory Chapter.

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Boundaries of the Canwood, Nisbet, Fort a la Corne, Torch River, and Porcupine Provincial Forests are described, as well as the southern portion of the Northern Provincial Forest.Crown resource lands contained within these boundaries are designated as provincial forest. Certain lands have been deemed to be withdrawn from the provincial forest pursuant to subsection 12(4) of the Act.The Forest Resources Management ActThe Forest Resources Management RegulationsThe provincial forest boundary is described by clauses and subclauses in The Forest Resources Management Regulations. Each provincial forest boundary description clause and subclause has a corresponding line feature in FORESTRY.PLANNING_Forest_Boundary. Clause descriptions position provincial forest boundary line features according to Saskatchewan’s Land Survey System by Township, Range, and Meridian. Subclause descriptions further positions provincial forest boundary line features within the clause.When a subclause describes the provincial forest boundary according to a water body or water course bank, line features are digitized from the Saskatchewan Geospatial Imagery Collaborative 2016 three-band (red, green, blue) SPOT 6 and 7 satellite imagery mosaic, pan-sharpened to 1.5 m resolution (IMAGERY.SGIC_SPOT_RGB_2016_Ref). In certain situation, applying this satellite imagery to the provincial forest boundary description results in a gap between land and water. In such cases, in order to maintain a contiguous boundary, a new line feature is created that has no corresponding clause and subclause in The Forest Resources Management Regulations. These “Land to Water Gap” features are identified as such in the SUBCLAUSE_DESCR field.When a subclause describes the provincial forest boundary according to the Saskatchewan Land Survey System, line features are extracted from Information Services Corporation CADASTRE data (CADASTRE.SG_SECTION, .SG_QUARTERSECTION, .SG_LEGALSUBDIVISION, .surface, .boundary, .right_of_way).By convention, the west boundary of a line feature is defined by the vector west of the road allowance and the south boundary of a line feature is defined by the vector south of the road allowance. In certain situation, applying this convention to the provincial forest boundary description results in a gap created by an adjacent east or north road allowance. In such cases, in order to maintain a contiguous boundary, a new line feature is created that has no corresponding clause and subclause in The Forest Resources Management Regulations. These “Road Allowance Gap” features are identified as such in the SUBCLAUSE_DESCR field.In spite of west / south boundary road allowance convention, when a road allowance forms the boundary of the provincial forest, in FORESTRY.PLANNING_Forest_Boundary, the line feature is drawn such that the road allowance is excluded from the provincial forest.

The Saskatchewan Digital Land Cover was created to be used in the interim. The National Land Cover Project plans to integrate land cover information compiled by Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. The Saskatchewan Digital Land Cover raster provides a seamless provincial coverage of the province and was created by combining the Saskatchewan Research Council's Northern Digital Land Cover (NDLC) with the Southern Digital Land Cover (SDLC). With exception to the SDLC's value 2 (i.e. Hay Crops) and value 3 (i.e. Native Dominant Grass Lands), the NDLC takes precedence over the SDLC in areas that the two rasters overlap because the NDLC is more current than the dated SDLC. The SDLC's values 2 and 3 were preserved because these land covers are not specifically represented in the NDLC. For the purpose of this dataset, some of the SDLC and NDLC values were reclassified to new values to reconcile varying definitions. It should also be noted that because the NDLC's 30 x 30 metre pixels do not align with the SDLC's 30 x 30 metre pixels, this raster was snapped to the NDLC. Last, as is with the SDLC and the NDLC, the extent of this raster does not extend all of the way to the Saskatchewan boundary, specifically, the Information Services Corporation's SaskGIS Provincial Boundary dataset, in numerous areas along the west, south and southeast borders: There are gaps of up to 500 m wide of "no data" between the provincial boundary and the raster along these areas of the Saskatchewan boundary. Classification Value AGRICULTURE 1 HAY CROPS 2 NATIVE DOMINANT GRASSLANDS 3 TALL SHRUBS 4 PASTURE 5 HARDWOODS (OPEN CANOPY) 6 HARDWOODS (CLOSED CANOPY) 7 JACKPINE (CLOSED CANOPY) 8 JACKPINE (OPEN CANOPY) 9 SPRUCE (CLOSED CANOPY) 10 SPRUCE (OPEN CANOPY) 11 MIXED WOODS 12 TREED ROCK 13 RECENT BURNS 14 REVEGETATING/REGENERATION BURN 15 CUTOVERS 16 WATER 17 MARSH 18 HERBACEOUS FEN 19 MUD/SAND/SALINE 20 SHRUB FEN (TREED SWAMP) 21 TREED BOG 22 OPEN BOG 23 FARMSTEAD 24 UNCLASSIFIED 25 BARREN LAND 26 MIXED SOFTWOODS (OPEN & CLOSED) 27 PASTURE UPLAND HERBACEOUS GRAMINOID 30 1. AGRICULTURE - Cropland, including all lands dedicated to the production of annual cereal, oil seed, and other specialty crops, and typically cultivated on an annual basis; and agricultural clearing areas. 2. HAY CROPS (Forage) - Alfalfa and alfalfa/tame grass mixtures. 3. NATIVE DOMINANT GRASSLANDS - Native dominant grasslands. (May contain tame grasses and herbs.) 4. TALL SHRUBS - Communities containing both low and tall shrub, snowberry, saskatoon, chokecherry, buffaloberry, and willow. 5. PASTURE (Seeded Grass Lands) - Grassland dominated by tame grass species. 6. HARDWOODS (I.E. OPEN CANOPY) - Greater than 75% hardwoods by area, including trembling aspen, white birch, balsam poplar; 10 - 55% crown closure. 7. HARDWOODS (I.E. CLOSED CANOPY) - Greater than 75% hardwoods by area, including trembling aspen, white birch, balsam poplar; Greater than 55% crown closure. 8. JACKPINE (I.E. CLOSED CANOPY) - Greater than 75% of Jack Pine by area; Greater than 55% crown closure. 9. JACKPINE (I.E. OPEN CANOPY) - Greater than 75% of Jack Pine by area; 10 - 55% crown closure. 10. SPRUCE (I.E. CLOSED CANOPY) - Greater than 75% or greater Black and White Spruce; Greater than 55% crown closure. 11. SPRUCE (I.E. OPEN CANOPY) - Greater than 75% Black and White Spruce; 10-55% crown closure. 12. MIXED WOODS - All softwood/hardwood mixtures; open and closed canopy (i.e. An area of hardwood and softwood combinations in which neither hardwood nor softwood account for greater than 75% of species by area, and where the crown closure is greater than 10%). 13. TREED ROCK - Areas of exposed bedrock with generally less then 10% tree cover. 14. RECENT BURNS - An area showing evidence of recent burning natural or prescribed and there is little to no regeneration or revegetation visible. 15. REVEGETATING/REGENERATION BURN - An area showing evidence of natural or prescribed burning and where regeneration or revegetation is visible. 16. CUTOVERS - An area of deforestation, vegetated and non-vegetated. 17. WATER - These areas include lakes, rivers, streams and reservoirs 18. MARSH - A periodically wet or continually flooded but non peat-forming area supporting grasses, sedges, and reeds. 19. HERBACEOUS FEN - A wetland area consisting of decomposing peat supporting vascular and nonvascular plants (i.e. grasses, sedges, reeds). 20. MUD/SAND/SALINE - Water saturated soil, sand containing no vegetation, and salt water. 21. SHRUB FEN (I.E. TREED SWAMP) - A wetland area consisting of decomposing peat supporting low shrubs, forbs, grass, moss, and a sparse tree cover. 22. TREED BOG - A wetland area consisting of decomposing peat moss, lichen, and shrubs, with 10% or more canopy by trees (i.e. primarily black spruce and tamarack). 23. OPEN BOG - A wetland area consisting of decomposing peat moss, lichen, and sparse tree cover. 24. FARMSTEAD - Farmsteads, towns, cities, exposed areas with little or no vegetation. 25. UNCLASSIFIED 26. BARREN LAND - Any area of exposed rock, soil, or non-vegetated land. 27. MIXED SOFTWOODS (OPEN & CLOSED) - Jack Pine/Spruce, Spruce/Jack Pine Open and Closed, an area of softwood combinations in which neither Jack Pine or Spruce account for greater than 75% of species by area, and where crown closure is greater than 10%. 30. PASTURE UPLAND HERBACEOUS GRAMINOID - Lands containing known pastures, tame or native grasses, and herbaceous vegetation. These lands may contain low-lying shrubs with less then 10% tree cover.

Represents the boundary line of Saskatchewan Crown resource lands designated as provincial forests as described in The Forest Resources Management Regulations, F-19.1 Reg 1, amended June 2020. Boundaries of the Canwood, Nisbet, Fort a la Corne, Torch River, and Porcupine Provincial Forests are described, as well as the southern portion of the Northern Provincial Forest. Crown resource lands contained within these boundaries are designated as provincial forest. Certain lands have been deemed to be withdrawn from the provincial forest pursuant to subsection 12(4) of the Act. The Forest Resources Management Act The Forest Resources Management Regulations The provincial forest boundary is described by clauses and subclauses in The Forest Resources Management Regulations. Each provincial forest boundary description clause and subclause has a corresponding line feature in FORESTRY.PLANNING_Forest_Boundary. Clause descriptions position provincial forest boundary line features according to Saskatchewan’s Land Survey System by Township, Range, and Meridian. Subclause descriptions further positions provincial forest boundary line features within the clause. When a subclause describes the provincial forest boundary according to a water body or water course bank, line features are digitized from the Saskatchewan Geospatial Imagery Collaborative 2016 three-band (red, green, blue) SPOT 6 and 7 satellite imagery mosaic, pan-sharpened to 1.5 m resolution (IMAGERY.SGIC_SPOT_RGB_2016_Ref). In certain situation, applying this satellite imagery to the provincial forest boundary description results in a gap between land and water. In such cases, in order to maintain a contiguous boundary, a new line feature is created that has no corresponding clause and subclause in The Forest Resources Management Regulations. These “Land to Water Gap” features are identified as such in the SUBCLAUSE_DESCR field. When a subclause describes the provincial forest boundary according to the Saskatchewan Land Survey System, line features are extracted from Information Services Corporation CADASTRE data (CADASTRE.SG_SECTION, .SG_QUARTERSECTION, .SG_LEGALSUBDIVISION, .surface, .boundary, .right_of_way). By convention, the west boundary of a line feature is defined by the vector west of the road allowance and the south boundary of a line feature is defined by the vector south of the road allowance. In certain situation, applying this convention to the provincial forest boundary description results in a gap created by an adjacent east or north road allowance. In such cases, in order to maintain a contiguous boundary, a new line feature is created that has no corresponding clause and subclause in The Forest Resources Management Regulations. These “Road Allowance Gap” features are identified as such in the SUBCLAUSE_DESCR field. In spite of west / south boundary road allowance convention, when a road allowance forms the boundary of the provincial forest, in FORESTRY.PLANNING_Forest_Boundary, the line feature is drawn such that the road allowance is excluded from the provincial forest.

This report provides an overview of key social, economic and environmental factors in the North Saskatchewan land-use region that need to be considered in developing a regional plan.

Private map (managed forest code 50) used in the Story Map of Forest Management in Canada, 2017. Private map (managed forest code 50) used in the Story Map of Forest Management in Canada, 2017. Private lands were identified using provincial and territorial land ownership datasets. Detailed ownership datasets were not available in all jurisdictions, so proxies were used where necessary. In Saskatchewan, lands south of the province's Commercial Forest Zone were classified as Private. This includes some Crown lands, but these are generally small and not included in forest management plans or leased for commercial forestry purposes. Source: This web map shows the private areas used in the map of forest management in Canada, 2017 and includes the following tiled layer: Private (Managed Forest Code 50)Data provided by Alberta Agriculture and Forestry; British Columbia Ministry of Forests; Manitoba Sustainable Development; Natural Resources Canada; New Brunswick Department of Energy and Resource Development; Newfoundland & Labrador Department of Fisheries and Land Resources; Northwest Territories Department of Environment and Natural Resources; Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forestry; Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry; Prince Edward Island Department of Communities, Land & Environment; Québec Ministère des Forêts, de la Faune et des Parcs; Saskatchewan Ministry of Environment; and Yukon Energy, Mines and Resources.

Represents the boundary line of Saskatchewan Crown resource lands designated as provincial forests as described in The Forest Resources Management Regulations, F-19.1 Reg 1, amended June 2020. Boundaries of the Canwood, Nisbet, Fort a la Corne, Torch River, and Porcupine Provincial Forests are described, as well as the southern portion of the Northern Provincial Forest. Crown resource lands contained within these boundaries are designated as provincial forest. Certain lands have been deemed to be withdrawn from the provincial forest pursuant to subsection 12(4) of the Act. The Forest Resources Management Act The Forest Resources Management Regulations The provincial forest boundary is described by clauses and subclauses in The Forest Resources Management Regulations. Each provincial forest boundary description clause and subclause has a corresponding line feature in FORESTRY.PLANNING_Forest_Boundary. Clause descriptions position provincial forest boundary line features according to Saskatchewan’s Land Survey System by Township, Range, and Meridian. Subclause descriptions further positions provincial forest boundary line features within the clause. When a subclause describes the provincial forest boundary according to a water body or water course bank, line features are digitized from the Saskatchewan Geospatial Imagery Collaborative 2016 three-band (red, green, blue) SPOT 6 and 7 satellite imagery mosaic, pan-sharpened to 1.5 m resolution (IMAGERY.SGIC_SPOT_RGB_2016_Ref). In certain situation, applying this satellite imagery to the provincial forest boundary description results in a gap between land and water. In such cases, in order to maintain a contiguous boundary, a new line feature is created that has no corresponding clause and subclause in The Forest Resources Management Regulations. These “Land to Water Gap” features are identified as such in the SUBCLAUSE_DESCR field. When a subclause describes the provincial forest boundary according to the Saskatchewan Land Survey System, line features are extracted from Information Services Corporation CADASTRE data (CADASTRE.SG_SECTION, .SG_QUARTERSECTION, .SG_LEGALSUBDIVISION, .surface, .boundary, .right_of_way). By convention, the west boundary of a line feature is defined by the vector west of the road allowance and the south boundary of a line feature is defined by the vector south of the road allowance. In certain situation, applying this convention to the provincial forest boundary description results in a gap created by an adjacent east or north road allowance. In such cases, in order to maintain a contiguous boundary, a new line feature is created that has no corresponding clause and subclause in The Forest Resources Management Regulations. These “Road Allowance Gap” features are identified as such in the SUBCLAUSE_DESCR field. In spite of west / south boundary road allowance convention, when a road allowance forms the boundary of the provincial forest, in FORESTRY.PLANNING_Forest_Boundary, the line feature is drawn such that the road allowance is excluded from the provincial forest.

The Saskatchewan Digital Land Cover was created to be used in the interim. The National Land Cover Project plans to integrate land cover information compiled by Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. The Saskatchewan Digital Land Cover raster provides a seamless provincial coverage of the province and was created by combining the Saskatchewan Research Council's Northern Digital Land Cover (NDLC) with the Southern Digital Land Cover (SDLC). With exception to the SDLC's value 2 (i.e. Hay Crops) and value 3 (i.e. Native Dominant Grass Lands), the NDLC takes precedence over the SDLC in areas that the two rasters overlap because the NDLC is more current than the dated SDLC. The SDLC's values 2 and 3 were preserved because these land covers are not specifically represented in the NDLC. For the purpose of this dataset, some of the SDLC and NDLC values were reclassified to new values to reconcile varying definitions. It should also be noted that because the NDLC's 30 x 30 metre pixels do not align with the SDLC's 30 x 30 metre pixels, this raster was snapped to the NDLC. Last, as is with the SDLC and the NDLC, the extent of this raster does not extend all of the way to the Saskatchewan boundary, specifically, the Information Services Corporation's SaskGIS Provincial Boundary dataset, in numerous areas along the west, south and southeast borders: There are gaps of up to 500 m wide of "no data" between the provincial boundary and the raster along these areas of the Saskatchewan boundary. Classification Value AGRICULTURE 1 HAY CROPS 2 NATIVE DOMINANT GRASSLANDS 3 TALL SHRUBS 4 PASTURE 5 HARDWOODS (OPEN CANOPY) 6 HARDWOODS (CLOSED CANOPY) 7 JACKPINE (CLOSED CANOPY) 8 JACKPINE (OPEN CANOPY) 9 SPRUCE (CLOSED CANOPY) 10 SPRUCE (OPEN CANOPY) 11 MIXED WOODS 12 TREED ROCK 13 RECENT BURNS 14 REVEGETATING/REGENERATION BURN 15 CUTOVERS 16 WATER 17 MARSH 18 HERBACEOUS FEN 19 MUD/SAND/SALINE 20 SHRUB FEN (TREED SWAMP) 21 TREED BOG 22 OPEN BOG 23 FARMSTEAD 24 UNCLASSIFIED 25 BARREN LAND 26 MIXED SOFTWOODS (OPEN & CLOSED) 27 PASTURE UPLAND HERBACEOUS GRAMINOID 30 1. AGRICULTURE - Cropland, including all lands dedicated to the production of annual cereal, oil seed, and other specialty crops, and typically cultivated on an annual basis; and agricultural clearing areas. 2. HAY CROPS (Forage) - Alfalfa and alfalfa/tame grass mixtures. 3. NATIVE DOMINANT GRASSLANDS - Native dominant grasslands. (May contain tame grasses and herbs.) 4. TALL SHRUBS - Communities containing both low and tall shrub, snowberry, saskatoon, chokecherry, buffaloberry, and willow. 5. PASTURE (Seeded Grass Lands) - Grassland dominated by tame grass species. 6. HARDWOODS (I.E. OPEN CANOPY) - Greater than 75% hardwoods by area, including trembling aspen, white birch, balsam poplar; 10 - 55% crown closure. 7. HARDWOODS (I.E. CLOSED CANOPY) - Greater than 75% hardwoods by area, including trembling aspen, white birch, balsam poplar; Greater than 55% crown closure. 8. JACKPINE (I.E. CLOSED CANOPY) - Greater than 75% of Jack Pine by area; Greater than 55% crown closure. 9. JACKPINE (I.E. OPEN CANOPY) - Greater than 75% of Jack Pine by area; 10 - 55% crown closure. 10. SPRUCE (I.E. CLOSED CANOPY) - Greater than 75% or greater Black and White Spruce; Greater than 55% crown closure. 11. SPRUCE (I.E. OPEN CANOPY) - Greater than 75% Black and White Spruce; 10-55% crown closure. 12. MIXED WOODS - All softwood/hardwood mixtures; open and closed canopy (i.e. An area of hardwood and softwood combinations in which neither hardwood nor softwood account for greater than 75% of species by area, and where the crown closure is greater than 10%). 13. TREED ROCK - Areas of exposed bedrock with generally less then 10% tree cover. 14. RECENT BURNS - An area showing evidence of recent burning natural or prescribed and there is little to no regeneration or revegetation visible. 15. REVEGETATING/REGENERATION BURN - An area showing evidence of natural or prescribed burning and where regeneration or revegetation is visible. 16. CUTOVERS - An area of deforestation, vegetated and non-vegetated. 17. WATER - These areas include lakes, rivers, streams and reservoirs 18. MARSH - A periodically wet or continually flooded but non peat-forming area supporting grasses, sedges, and reeds. 19. HERBACEOUS FEN - A wetland area consisting of decomposing peat supporting vascular and nonvascular plants (i.e. grasses, sedges, reeds). 20. MUD/SAND/SALINE - Water saturated soil, sand containing no vegetation, and salt water. 21. SHRUB FEN (I.E. TREED SWAMP) - A wetland area consisting of decomposing peat supporting low shrubs, forbs, grass, moss, and a sparse tree cover. 22. TREED BOG - A wetland area consisting of decomposing peat moss, lichen, and shrubs, with 10% or more canopy by trees (i.e. primarily black spruce and tamarack). 23. OPEN BOG - A wetland area consisting of decomposing peat moss, lichen, and sparse tree cover. 24. FARMSTEAD - Farmsteads, towns, cities, exposed areas with little or no vegetation. 25. UNCLASSIFIED 26. BARREN LAND - Any area of exposed rock, soil, or non-vegetated land. 27. MIXED SOFTWOODS (OPEN & CLOSED) - Jack Pine/Spruce, Spruce/Jack Pine Open and Closed, an area of softwood combinations in which neither Jack Pine or Spruce account for greater than 75% of species by area, and where crown closure is greater than 10%. 30. PASTURE UPLAND HERBACEOUS GRAMINOID - Lands containing known pastures, tame or native grasses, and herbaceous vegetation. These lands may contain low-lying shrubs with less then 10% tree cover.

Download: here This raster file is to accompany the Prairie Landscape Inventory (PLI) - Mixed Grassland Classification, and depicts its estimated level of accuracy. Accuracy has been calculated based on peer-review research and gathered survey information from the PLI-Review Web Application.The Prairie Landscape Inventory (PLI) working team of Habitat Unit in the Fish, Wildlife and Lands Branch, Ministry of Environment aims to develop improved methods of assessing land cover and land use for conservation. Native grassland, in particular, has been one of the most hard to map at risk ecosystems because of difficulty for imagery classification methods to distinguish native from tame grasslands. Improved classification methods will provide valuable information for habitat suitability, identifying high biodiversity potential and invasion risk potential. This reliability map brings the understanding of classification accuracy (certainty) into a spatial scale prospective, illustrating the level of accuracy of the PLI Classification raster for each location. This map is scaled between 100 to 0, 100 is representing the highest accuracy, and 0 is absolutely the highest uncertainty. The Prairie Landscape Inventory (PLI) - Mixed Grassland Classification raster has a resolution of 10m and was based on machine learning analysis and remote sensing data of Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 imagery.

This 5 class 6 m resolution land cover was created for the NSWA and BRWA in 2020-2021 using SPOT6/7 imagery from 2017 and 2018 provided by the Government of Alberta in order to assess riparian intactness for 25,272 km of shoreline in Alberta. The land cover was developed from 44 separate supervised random forest classifications of 41 different SPOT6 6m imagery tiles from 2017/2018 and was then clipped to a 50 m buffer around waterbodies of interest. The full classification is composed of 41 individual polygon files, each of which corresponds to the original SPOT tile that the classification was performed on. Details on the individual SPOT tiles is available in the accompanying report. Two data products are available from this project: Wall to Wall Land Cover (available in TIFF and FGDB formats) and Shoreline Buffer (available in TIFF format). Please see the Distribution Information to obtain the data products.

All feature classes from the PETROLEUM schema in the Production Data Warehouse.

This 5 class 6 m resolution land cover was created for the NSWA and BRWA in 2020-2021 using SPOT6/7 imagery from 2017 and 2018 provided by the Government of Alberta in order to assess riparian intactness for 25,272 km of shoreline in Alberta. The land cover was developed from 44 separate supervised random forest classifications of 41 different SPOT6 6m imagery tiles from 2017/2018 and was then clipped to a 50 m buffer around waterbodies of interest. The full classification is composed of 41 individual polygon files, each of which corresponds to the original SPOT tile that the classification was performed on. Details on the individual SPOT tiles is available in the accompanying report. Two data products are available from this project: Wall to Wall Land Cover (available in TIFF and FGDB formats) and Shoreline Buffer (available in TIFF format). Please see the Distribution Information to obtain the data products.

This is a georeferenced raster image of a printed paper map of the Mistatim, Saskatchewan region (Sheet No. 063D14), published in 1967. It is the first edition in a series of maps, which show both natural and man-made features such as relief, spot heights, administrative boundaries, secondary and side roads, railways, trails, wooded areas, waterways including lakes, rivers, streams and rapids, bridges, buildings, mills, power lines, terrain, and land formations. This map was published in 1967 and the information on the map is current as of 1958. Maps were produced by Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) and it's preceding agencies, in partnership with other government agencies. Please note: image / survey capture dates can span several years, and some details may have been updated later than others. Please consult individual map sheets for detailed production information, which can be found in the bottom left hand corner. Original maps were digitally scanned by McGill Libraries in partnership with Canadiana.org, and georeferencing for the maps was provided by the University of Toronto Libraries and Eastview Corporation.

This data set was gridded by BORIS staff from a vector data set received from Canadian Soil Information System (CanSIS). The original data came in two parts that covered Saskatchewan and Manitoba. The data were gridded and merged into one data set of 84 files covering the BOReal Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study (BOREAS) region. The data were gridded into the Albers Equal-Area Conic (AEAC) projection. Because the mapping of the two provinces was done separately in the original vector data, there may be discontinuities in some of the soil layers because of different interpretations of certain soil properties.