Wildlife Management Unit Coordinate system: 4269 - "NAD83" Abstract: A Wildlife Management Unit (WMU) is an administrative coverage that identifies a geographic area (i.e. numbered divisions of the Province of Ontario) which serves as a land base for wildlife research and management. These units have been developed in Ontario based on a number of factors including the environmental requirements of principal wildlife species, ecosystems, and consideration of suitability of boundaries to traditional and future users, landowners, municipalities and other jurisdictions. Boundaries are generally described by rivers, lakes, roads, and other features easily recognized on the ground. A few exceptions occur where less visible criteria (for example, township/district boundaries) have been used in the absence of suitable physical features. The Intended Use and Purpose for Collecting the Data Set or Information Holding: WMUs are used for a number of wildlife management purposes, one of which is to indicate the relevant geographic areas of Ontario where hunting open seasons and harvest quotas apply. Supplementary tables can be used and are available for download from the additional documentation section. This layer is part of what was known as the OMNR Non-Fundamental Dataset.

Additional Documentation

• Metadata Information

  Language: eng; CAN

  Last Update: 2013-07-12

  Other Maintenance Requirements:

  2e0ee5a9-1500-41c2-a6ce-f750c1e832be

  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

  
  
  

  Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources Peterborough Ontario, Canada

  Themes or Categories of the Resource: planningCadastre

  Keywords:

  ADMINISTRATION, COMPLIANCE ENFORCEMENT, WILDLIFE, SEASONS, ALLOCATION, BLACK BEAR, BOUNDARY, CARIBOU, DEER, ENFORCEMENT, REGULATIONS, SMALL GAME, UPLAND GAMEBIRDS, WATERFOWL, WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT, MOOSE, HUNTING, WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT UNIT, NON-FUNDAMENTAL

  WILDLIFE, WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT, SEASONS, Black bear (Ursus americanus), Caribou (Rangifer tarandus), CERVIDAE, ENFORCEMENT, REGULATIONS, REGULATION, WATERFOWL, HUNTING, ALCES

  Management, Gestion, Compliance, Conformité, Wildlife, Faune, Wildlife management, Gestion de la faune, Boundaries, Frontière, Enforcement, Contrôle d'application, Regulations, Règlements, Regulation, Réglementation, Game (Wildlife), Gibier

  Place Keywords:

  Continent > North America > Canada > Ontario

  Purpose:

  WMU are used for a number of wildlife management purposes, one of which is to indicate the relevant geographic areas of Ontario where hunting open seasons and harvest quotas apply.

  Dataset Language: eng; CAN

  Status: onGoing

  Update Frequency: asNeeded

  Spatial Representation Type: vector

  Extent

  West Longitude: -95.153667

  East Longitude: -74.320109

  North Latitude: 56.859365

  South Latitude: 41.676556

  
  

  Supplemental Information:

  Please note that this data is a representation of the Wildlife Management Units (WMU), that are depicted on maps in the Surveyor General's Office. It is the maps in the Surveyor Generals Office that are referred to in Ontario Regulation 663/98, Part 6 as of June 1, 2006. Legislated or Legal Authority for Collection: Wildlife Management Unit boundaries are regulated under the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Act - Ontario Regulation 663/98, Part 6 as amended. Additional Time Period Information: These WMU came into regulation on June 1, 2006. Prior to these regulations Northern WMU's came into existence in 1975 , while the southern WMU's were created in 1978.

• Spatial Representation - Vector

  Geometric Objects:

  Object Type: composite

  Object Count: 151

• Reference System Information

  Reference System Identifier

  Value: 4269

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

• Data Quality Information

  Scope Level: dataset

• Distribution Information

  Distributor:

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