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Wildlife Sensitivity Maps – Data Sets

The wildlife sensitive feature layers that SRD uses are derived from

  • Aerial surveys
  • Historical information
  • Movements of collared animals (telemetry)
  • Specific habitat types

These range delineations are based on all available scientifically-derived information.

Key Features

These wildlife feature layers provide industrial operators, government departments and the general public with the best information currently available on the extent of wildlife sensitivities.

These layers are also available through the Landscape Analysis Tool used by the Government of Alberta's Enhanced Approval Process. Specific operating conditions apply to industrial activities within these sensitive feature layers to help mitigate the effects of development on populations and habitat.

Wildlife Sensitivity Data Sets

Spatial Data Layer Formats

Provincial Wildlife Sensitive feature spatial data layers are available in GIS-usable format that require GIS software such as ESRI® ArcGIS and are provided in the following WinZip files for each sensitivity.

Non-GIS users can access the tabular data by opening the *.dbf tables files in spreadsheet software such as Microsoft Excel. These files are represented in the GCS North American 1983 Geographic Coordinate System.

In most cases each wildlife sensitivity layer has been developed as a single shapefile layer (ESRI Arc Map/ArcView Shapefile - .dbf, .prj, .shp, .shx, .sbn, .sbx, .xml). However, in some cases a wildlife sensitivity may be represented by 2 or more layers.

Metadata has been compiled and embedded within each shapefile, however non-GIS users may access the metadata by opening the *.xml files using Microsoft Internet Explorer. These data layers have been endorsed by Alberta Sustainable Resource Development as representing the wildlife sensitivity layers.

 

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Updated: January 13, 2012