Manitoba's Provincial Forest Boundaries (version 6): There are currently 15 provincial forests totalling almost 22,000 km2. Attributes include the name of the provincial forest, the year it was established and its area. Detailed descriptions of Manitoba’s provincial forests are provided in the Provincial Forest Act Regulations.Manitoba's Provincial Forest B oundaries ( V ersion 6 ). Manitoba's provincial forests reserve certain areas in the province for perpetual growth of timber, preserve the forest cover thereon and provide for a reasonable use of all the resources that the forest lands contain. All Crown lands within a provincial forest are withdrawn from disposition, sale, settlement or occupancy, except under authority of the Forest Act . Before the Province of Manitoba was established, European settlers were promised 160 acres of free land if they lived on it and cleared it for agriculture. As a result, farms began replacing our southern forests. The federal government decided they must retain some forests for building material. In 1885 , they established Turtle Mountain, Spruce Woods and Riding Mountain (now a national park) as timber reserves. Duck Mountain and Porcupine Mountain followed in 1906. What started out as federal timber reserves 100 years ago have become our provincial forests of today. Manitoba has 15 provincial forests , totalling almost 22,000 sq. km . These forests are among the highest quality timber stands in the province. Today, our provincial forests are much more than reserves for timber. They are also places for wildlife, recreation and research. Control of Manitoba's forests was transferred from the federal to the provincial governments in 1930. Provincial forests are Crown lands owned by the people of Manitoba. The feature class name (BDY_MB_PROV_FOREST_PY) components include: 1. ISO 19115 Topic Category Name (BDY for boundary); 2. Location code (MB for Manitoba); 3. Intuitive or descriptive name (PROV_FOREST); 4. Data/geometry type (PY for polygon); 5. Version number (v 6 ).Manitoba's provincial forests include Agassiz Provincial Forest, Belair Provincial Forest, Brightstone Sand Hills Provincial Forest, Cat Hills Provincial Forest, Cormorant Provincial Forest, Duck Mountain, Moose Creek Provincial Forest, Northwest Angle Provincial Forest, Porcupine Provincial Forest, Sandilands Provincial Forest, Spruce Woods Provincial Forest, Swan-Pelican Provincial Forest, Turtle Mountain Provincial Forest, Wampum Provincial Forest, and Whiteshell Provincial Forest.Detailed descriptions of Manitoba’s Provincial Forests are provided in the Provincial Forest Act Regulations. The dataset includes the following fields : Name / Nom Alias Description PROV_FOREST_ID Provincial Forest ID / No de la forêt provinciale Provincial Forest identifier Identificateur de la forêt provinciale PROV_FOREST_NAME Provincial Forest Name Provincial Forest name -- NOM_FORET_PROV Nom de la forêt provinciale -- Nom de la forêt provinciale ESTABLISHED Year Established / Année d’établissement The year that the provincial forest was established L’année où la forêt provinciale a été établie AREA_HA Area / Surface (Hectares) Area in hectares La surface en hectares

Fire maintained ecosystem restoration for the Rocky Mountain Forest District. The data was provided by MOFR/Interior Reforestation and compiled based on the various sources including VRI, BEC, TSR2 Algorithm 2003, etc.

Represents the gross area boundary within which Saskatchewan Crown resource lands are designated as provincial forests.For the entire Canwood, Nisbet, Fort a la Corne, Torch River, and Porcupine Provincial Forests, and the southern portion of the Northern Provincial Forest, boundaries follow the textual descriptions found in The Forest Resources Management Regulations, F-19.1 Reg 1, amended June 2020. For the northern, eastern and western portions of the Northern Provincial Forest, boundaries were sourced from the SaskGIS Provincial Boundary data set (ADMINISTRATIVE.provincial_boundary) produced by Information Services Corporation. This data set depicts the provincial boundary of the province of Saskatchewan as reflected in the respective jurisdictional boundary acts, and is kept current on a monthly basis. The version used here has an effective date of 31 May 2020. 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

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.

Terrestrial Ecosystem Mapping for Steam Boat Mountain in the Rocky Mountain Forest District (ttem_st)

## Information document concerning the results of the threat analysisThis document provides additional information to better understand and use the threat data produced as part of the integrated recovery approach. This data highlights the sectors where the impacts of threats on occurrences listed by the [Quebec Natural Heritage Data Center (CDPNQ)] (https://www.quebec.ca/gouvernement/gouvernement-ouvert/transparence-performance/indicateurs-statistiques/donnees-especes-situation-precaire) are the most important.# #Quelles data included in the analyses?The analyses focus on the following 67 elements (wildlife species):* Amphibians: swamp frog, boreal chorus frog, western chorus frog, western chorus frog, purple salamander, Adirondack and Appalachian pop., mountain dusky salamander, mountain dusky salamander, mountain dusky salamander, mountain dusky salamander, mountain dusky salamander, mountain dusky salamander, mountain dusky salamander, mountain dusky salamander, mountain dusky salamander, mountain dusky salamander, mountain dusky salamander, mountain dusky salamander, mountain dusky salamander, mountain dusky salamander, mountain dusky salamander, mountain* Insects: satyr tawny from the Maritimes* Mammals: pygmy weasel, rock vole, forest vole, forest vole, forest vole, Cooper lemming vole, northern bat, eastern pygmy bat, Gaspé shrew, longicaude shrew, longicaude shrew, little flying squirrel, little flying squirrel, pop. of the plains of the Great Lakes, small brown bat, eastern pipistrelle* Birds: golden eagle, diving harlequin, eastern pop., eastern pop., bunting grasshopper pratensis, Pratensis, grasshopper, rufa, peregrine falcon, Anatum/tundrius, Iceland tourniquet, eastern pop., eastern pop., eastern pop., Bicknell's thrush, Bicknell's thrush, horned grebe, black tern, short-eared owl, shore swallow, chimney swift, eastern pop., eastern pop., Bicknell's thrush, thrush of Bicknell, thrush, horned grebe, black tern, short-eared owl, shore swallow, chimney swift, eastern pop. White-tailed Plover, Cerulean Warbler, Golden-winged Warbler, Golden-winged Warbler, Lesser Bittern, Melodus Piping Plover, Bald Eagle, Yellow Rail, Yellow Rail, Roseate Tern* Fish: savory shad, mesh pike, vermiculated pike, vermiculated pike, crazy cat-rapids, copper redhorse, river redhorse, northern crappy, sand stinger, lake sturgeon, black sturgeon, black sturgeon, black sturgeon, black sturgeon, Atlantic sturgeon, Atlantic sturgeon, black sturgeon, Atlantic sturgeon, black sturgeon, Atlantic sturgeon, black sturgeon, Atlantic sturgeon, Atlantic sturgeon, black sturgeon, gray rock digger, rock darter, northern lamprey, northern lamprey, grass minnow, brass minnow, oquassa arctic char, rainbow smelt, southern pop. of St. Lawrence Estuary* Reptiles: brown snake, northern water snake, northern ribbonsnake, northern ribbonsnake, spotted snake, green snake, northern collared snake, wood turtle, geographic turtle, geographic turtle, speckled turtle, speckled turtle, musky turtle, spiny softshell turtleOther species, including floristic species, could be added to the analyses.Threats: Threats are activities that, by their location, intensity, or time in which they occur, generate stress (see next section) that affects elements of biodiversity. In total, the available data concerns 16 threats:* Future conversion risk: Development of residential, industrial and commercial areas;* Ski resorts;* Future conversion risk: Annual agriculture (field crops);* Sustainable agriculture;* Quarries and sandpits;* Roads;* Total removal of forest cover;* Partial removal of forest cover;* Educational treatments;* Motorized vehicles;* Boating;* Drainage in agricultural areas;* Phragmites australis;* Rhamnus cathartica;* Increase in predation by mesopredators;* Nutrient load.# #Méthode for calculating the impact rating* The method used to calculate the impact score is presented in the document Integrated Recovery Approach for Threatened or Vulnerable Species — Development of a New Tool for Conservation Planning.* The results are presented using a map grid in which each 10 km x 10 km plot shows the cumulative impact of a threat on the occurrences present in this portion of territory. The cumulative impact is obtained by adding up the impact ratings of all the occurrences present within the plot. This accumulation makes it possible to identify, using a color code, the “hot spots” of a threat on occurrences. The absence of color indicates the absence of calculated or listed impacts on occurrences. The color gradient illustrates the variation in the cumulative impact of this threat on all occurrences in the plot, from the lowest score (yellow) to the highest (red).* Each threat is presented on a separate layer, while an additional layer called “Threat Compilation” shows the sum of the threats over all the occurrences present in a plot. # #Quelle is standardized classification used for analysis?The threats analyzed were defined according to the document Standardized Classification of Threats Affecting Biodiversity — Definitions for the Quebec Conservation Data Center (CDC) v1.0, published in 2021.**This third party metadata element was translated using an automated translation tool (Amazon Translate).**

Terrestrial Ecosystem Mapping for Sheep Mountain in the Rocky Mountain Forest District (ttem_sh)

The spatial representation for a Forest Exclusion, which is an areas or block excluded from Provincial Forest at the time of the original establishment by Order in Council

The spatial representation for a Provincial Forest, which is any forest land that is designated by the Lieutenant Governor in council, to be managed and used for the social and economic benefit of the Province

Terrestrial Ecosystem Mapping for Bull Mountain in the Rocky Mountain Forest District (ttem_bm)