Analysis of the data provided primary and secondary land covers for the ecoregions, ecoprovinces, ecozones and political provinces. The data were then collated to permit searches on individual forest-dependent species for habitat information, land cover, land tenure and risk to the species. Conversely an ecosystem could be chosen and the species present in that area would be listed as well as the associated land cover and tenure.

Tool Design and Operation

The forest-dependent species-at-risk and forest-dependent birds have been presented as two separate applications to avoid confusion since the use of such terms as “habitat” and habitat categories were based on entirely different sets of information. The Web tool application was designed to present the geospatial data for on-line queries by land managers. This can be done in several ways; a point query on a particular polygon of interest a rectangular query which allows the user to define an area of interest the user refines their first query by adding additional criteria from a series of lists the user is able to display the corresponding range maps for the individual species from the refined list or from the entire species list

This project was developed with the support of :

Natural Resources Canada

The Geomatics Development Program Canadian Forestry Service

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