An Ungulate Winter Range (UWR) is defined as an area that contains habitat that is necessary to meet the winter habitat requirements of an ungulate species. UWRs are based on current understanding of ungulate habitat requirements in winter, as interpreted by FLNR regional staff from current scientific and management literature, local knowledge, and other expertise from the region. UWRs within this set of data are currently in the review and consultation stage of the area designation process. As UWRs are designated they will be moved into the [Approved Ungulate Winter Range](http://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/ungulate-winter-range) dataset.

Winter LOS is a GIS file that depicts the Department of Public Work's Winter Maintenance Levels of Service on all Department of Public Works' owned roadways. The definitions associated with Winter Levels of Service can be found at http://novascotia.ca/tran/winter/WinterMaintenanceStandards.pdf

Point feature layer showing the locations of winter trail and recreation areas in Manitoba's provincial parks.Point feature layer showing the locations of winter trail and recreation areas in Manitoba's provincial parks.  This layer is utilized in the interactive map Manitoba Parks - Winter Activity Trails Map and the web app Manitoba Parks - Winter Trails and Recreation Areas. The dataset includes the following fields (Alias (Name): Description) Park (Park): Name of the provincial park where the trail or recreation area is located Feature (Feature): Name of the trail or recreation area Activity (Activity): Contains a list of activities designated for the trail Length (Length): Length of the trail in kilometres Groom Date (Groom_Date): Date of the most recent grooming of the trail Rating (Rating): An overall rating of the trail or recreation area given the current conditions. (e.g., Excellent, Good, Fair, Poor, Closed, or Unknown) Trail Condition (Trail_Condition): This field contains a description of the current conditions of the trail or recreation area Additional Remarks (Additional_Remarks): Contains any other related information about the trail or recreation area PDF Link (PDF_Link): Contains a url link to a pdf map or website Ski (Ski): Indicates whether the activity is allowed and provides a way to filter the map features Skijor (Skijor): Indicates whether the activity is allowed and provides a way to filter the map features Walk (Walk): Indicates whether the activity is allowed and provides a way to filter the map features Skate Ski (Skate_Ski): Indicates whether the activity is allowed and provides a way to filter the map features Snowshoe (Snowshoe): Indicates whether the activity is allowed and provides a way to filter the map features Toboggan (Toboggan): Indicates whether the activity is allowed and provides a way to filter the map features Dog Sled (Dog_Sled): Indicates whether the activity is allowed and provides a way to filter the map features For more information about winter activities, visit the Manitoba Parks website.

Polyline feature layer of winter trails in Manitoba provincial parks.This feature layer contains polylines showing locations of winter trails in Manitoba provincial parks. Winter trails are those trails designated for certain winter activities, such as cross-country skiing, skijoring, skate-skiing, fat biking, and dog sledding. Most of these trails are groomed by Manitoba Parks staff throughout the season. This layer is used in the interactive map Manitoba Parks - Winter Activity Trails Map and the web app Manitoba Parks - Winter Trails and Recreation Areas. The dataset includes the following fields (Alias (Name): Description) Trail Name (Trail_Name): Name of the trail Park Name (Park_Name): Name of the provincial park where the trail is located Winter Use (Winter_Use): Indicates whether or not the trail is designated for winter use (Note: All features in this layer have a value of 'Yes') For more information about winter activities, visit the Manitoba Parks website.

Summer, Spring, Early Winter, and Late Winter multi-scale habitat model for mountain caribou in the Western Cariboo Region / Columbia Highlands / Northern Columbia Mountains. [Season] field should be used to split the data out into separate summer, spring, early winter, and late winter habitat models. [Model development is detailed in _Apps, C. D. and T. A. Kinley. 2000. Multiscale Habitat Modeling for Mountain Caribou in the Columbia Highlands and Northern Columbia Mountains Ecoregions, British Columbia.Wildlife Section, Ministry of Water, Land and Air Protection, Williams Lake, British Columbia, Canada](http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/cariboo/env_stewardship/wildlife/inventory/caribou/mtncar/hmi/habitatmod04-00.pdf).

Description:Seasonal climatologies (temperature, salinity, and sigma-t) of the Northeast Pacific Ocean were computed from historical observations including all available conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD), bottle, expendable bathy-thermograph (XBT), and Argo data in NOAA (http://www.argo.ucsd.edu/), Marine Environmental Data Service (MEDS), and Institute of Ocean Sciences archives over 1980 to 2010 period in spatial resolution ranging from approximately 100m to 70km.Methods:Calculations, including smooth and interpolation, were carried out in sixty-five subregions and up to fifty-two vertical levels from surface to 5000m. Seasonal averages were computed as the median of yearly seasonal values. Spring months were defined as April to June, summer months were defined as July to September, fall months were defined as October to December, and winter months were defined as January to March.Uncertainties:Uncertainties are introduced when quality controlled observational data are spatially interpolated to varying distances from the observation point. Climatological averages are calculated from these interpolated values.

Slope/Aspect habitat type limitations (high, moderate, low) in mule deer winter range within the Cariboo Region. These limitations apply only to interior douglas fir (IDF) and bunch grass biogeoclimatic zones within mule deer winter range.

Stand structure habitat classes associated with mule deer winter range in the Cariboo Region.

This catalog contains annual 30 m spatial resolution snow dynamics metrics for each snow-year from 2018-2019 to 2023-2024 for all of Canada. We gather all Landsat and Sentinel-2 images collected over Canada and identify the status of each pixel observation on the image collection date: snow (and ice), non-snow (i.e., land, water), unclear (i.e., clouds, shadows). We built an algorithm to calculate snow cover metrics for each pixel during each winter: start date of the first (and biggest) snow period [startF, startB], end date of the last (and biggest) snow period [endL, endB], number of days with snow cover in total (or in the biggest snow period) [lengthT, lengthB], number of snow periods (i.e., separated times with multiple confirmed snow observations) [periods], and a status classification (e.g., continuous snow, snow free) [status]. We do not obtain a clear observation every day because of satellite orbit frequencies and clouds. This means that timing-based metrics are identified by the middle date between two clear observations, with uncertainty quantified as half the length of the gap (i.e., ± days) [startF_u, startB_u, endL_u, endB_u, lengthT_u, lengthB_u].

The dataset contains approved legal boundaries for ungulate winter range and specified areas for ungulate species.