AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
EAUBC Lakes

River and Lake Ecosystem Types nest within both Ecological Drainage Units and Freshwater Ecoregions. They are therefore defined by zoogeographic, physiographic and climatic patterns but also take into account more localized physical habitat and dominant environmental processes that shape freshwater ecosystems. The units of analysis for lake ecosystems in BC are at a scale of 1:50,000. Biological information is sparse at this scale of the classification and is therefore not explicitly used to delineate ecosystem types. However, fish assemblages can be inferred for each Ecosystem Type based on the Ecological Drainage Unit it is nested within. Twelve Lake Ecosystem Types are identified in BC. 

Tags: Canada, EAUBC, EDU, Ecological Aquatic Units of British Columbia, Ecoregion, Nature Conservancy of Canada, aquatic classification, assemblage, climatic, ecological aquatic units, ecological drainage units, ecosystem, fish, freshwater, freshwater classification, physiographic, zoogeographic
Organization: Knowledge Management
EAUBC Rivers

River and Lake Ecosystem Types nest within both Ecological Drainage Units and Freshwater Ecoregions. They are therefore defined by zoogeographic, physiographic and climatic patterns but also take into account more localized physical habitat and dominant environmental processes that shape freshwater ecosystems. The units of analysis for river ecosystems in BC are at a scale of 1:50,000. Biological information is sparse at this scale of the classification and is therefore not explicitly used to delineate ecosystem types. However, fish assemblages can be inferred for each Ecosystem Type based on the Ecological Drainage Unit it is nested within. Eleven River Ecosystem Types and twenty-three River Ecosystem Sub-Types are identified in BC. In total, 18,100 watershed units are used in the classification of River Ecosystem Types.

Tags: Canada, EAUBC, EDU, Ecological Aquatic Units of British Columbia, Ecoregion, Nature Conservancy of Canada, River, aquatic classification, assemblage, climatic, ecological aquatic units, ecological drainage units, ecosystem, fish, freshwater, freshwater classification, physiographic, rivers, zoogeographic
Organization: Knowledge Management
SSAF (Skeena East ESI) - Grizzly Bear State of the Value (SoV) Report - 2020

A Landscape Level (also commonly known as Cumulative Effects) assessment (known as Tier 1 in SSAF terminology) of Grizzly Bear including the report, methodologies, and datasets.

Tags: Assessment  Cumulative Effects, Cumulative Effects, ESI, Grizzly Bear, SSAF, State of the Value
Organization: Regional Operations - Skeena
SSAF (Skeena East ESI) - Wetland State of the Value (SoV) Report - 2020

A Landscape Level (also commonly known as Cumulative Effects) assessment (known as Tier 1 in SSAF terminology) of Wetlands including the report, methodologies, and datasets.

Tags: Assessment  Cumulative Effects, Cumulative Effects, ESI, SSAF, State of the Value, Wetlands
Organization: Regional Operations - Skeena
shishalh-BC Land Use Planning - Current Condition Assessment - Protected Areas

Includes areas with limits on forest harvesting activity that were extracted from the  Generalized Forest Harvest Restrictions  (BC Data Catalogue) and selected for having restriction designations of Prohibited or Protected. Clipped to swiya 20km buffer for shíshálh-BC Joint Land Use Plan Current Condition Assessment. 

The Protected Areas layer includes, Ecological Reserves, Provincial Parks, Heritage Sites, Regional Parks, Ungulate Winter Ranges: No harvest, Wildlife Habitat Areas: No harvest, Sea to Sky Wildland Zones, NGO Fee Simple Conservation Lands, Old Growth Management Areas (OGMAs): Legal'), and new proposed Marbled Murrelet Wildlife Habitat Areas on August 14, 2023. Also includes, from Generalized Forest Cover Ownership , “Use, Recreation and Enjoyment of the Public Reserve” areas that are considered Prohibited.

Generalized Forest Harvesting Restrictions filtered by rr_restriction field in ('02_Ecological Reserve', '03_Provincial Park', '06_Heritage Site', '08_Regional Park', '09_Ungulate Winter Range: No harvest', '10_Wildlife Habitat Area: No harvest', '12_Sea to Sky Wildland Zone', '16_NGO Fee Simple Conservation Lands', '18_Old Growth Management Area (OGMA): Legal') and clipped to swiya 20km buffer for shíshálh-BC Joint Land Use Plan Current Condition Assessment. Clipped on May 4, 2023.

This spatial representation should be used only for strategic-level analysis and may not represent the most up-to-date or all land designations that have provisions that limit forest harvesting activity. The areas captured in this layer are not the authoritative legal representation of the land designations.

Tags: Current Condition Assessment, Land Use Planning, shíshálh, swiya
Organization: Regional Operations - South Coast
shishalh-BC LUP - Current Condition Assessment - Marbled Murrelet Suitable Habitat

This layer maps the best available spatial information for suitable Marbled Murrelet nesting habitat in a given area based on one or more methods used to classify habitat suitability. These include (from most to least accurate): low-level aerial surveys, air photo interpretation, and the BC Model (a habitat algorithm).

Data retrieved and clipped from Land Use Objectives Regulation Order package here: https://www.for.gov.bc.ca/ftp/RCO/external/!publish/MAMU/Spatial%20Data/. The layer was clipped to the swiya boundary with a 20km buffer applied for shíshálh-BC Land Use Plan Current Condition Assessment.

This item is a component of the shíshálh-BC Land Use Plan's Current Condition and Trends Assessment, please visit it here: https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/fdf19e4868d048cea1d0adbfa39f6f92.

Tags: British Columbia, Canada, Current Condition Assessment, Land Use Planning, shishalh, swiya
Organization: GeoBC Branch
SSAF (Skeena East ESI) - Fish and Fish Habitat (F+FH) State of the Value (SoV) Report - 2020

A Landscape Level (also commonly known as Cumulative Effects) assessment (known as Tier 1 in SSAF terminology) of Fish and Fish Habitat including the report, methodologies, and datasets.

This datasets was created collaboratively through SSAF ESI, and uses must adhere to OCAP principles.

Tags: Assessment  Cumulative Effects, Cumulative Effects, ESI, Fish and Fish Habitat, SSAF, State of the Value
Organization: Regional Operations - Skeena
Budget 2025 - Supplement to the Estimates

Tabular Budget 2025 supplementary information for the Fiscal Year Ending March 31, 2026 providing additional information on proposed spending, organized into major categories such as salaries, grants, capital, travel, and operations, including summary and detailed Consolidated Revenue Fund expenses for special offices, ministries and other appropriations classified by group accounts representing broad categories of expenses (Salaries and Benefits, Operating Costs, Government Transfers, Other Expenses, Internal Recoveries and External Recoveries); each group account is comprised of several specific components of expenses referred to as standard objects of expense.

Tags: Budget, Estimate, Ministry
Organization: Treasury Board Staff
3 Nations BC Collaborative Stewardship Framework Boundary

The 3 Nations Society and British Columbia Collaborative Stewardship Framework (“3NBC-CSF”) is an initiative by which the Kaska, Tahltan, and Tlingit Nations have agreed with the Province of BC on the co-design and the building of shared capacity with the goal of shared management of land and resource values across the traditional territories of the 3 Nations in the Province of BC.

The 3 Nations and BC have agreed to engage in shared decision-making on the delivery of this program, thereby supporting BC’s commitments to reconciliation, and to implement the United Nations Declaration of Indigenous Peoples (“UNDRIP”), the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Calls to Action, and the Draft Principles that Guide the Province of British Columbia’s Relationship with Indigenous Peoples.

3 Nations is a partnership to advance social policy and innovation that serves the communities of Iskut, Dease Lake, Telegraph Creek, Good Hope Lake, Lower Post, Fort Ware and Atlin.

Tags: 3 Nations, 3NBC, British Columbia, Canada, Collaborative Stewardship Framework
Organization: Regional Operations - Skeena
North Coast Stewardship Project Boundary

The North Coast Stewardship Program areas of focus include both habitat restoration projects and the longer-term, value-based work to address cumulative effects – the environmental effects of human activities, past and present –  within the territories of the six participating North Coast Nations: Kitsumkalum, Kitselas, Metlakatla, Haisla, Gitxaala, and Gitga’at. The North Coast Ecosystem Restoration Project is delivered through Nation-led Indigenous Stewardship Projects with collaboration occurring through shared data, lessons learned, methodologies, and site visits. To address cumulative effects, the North Coast Stewardship Program has aligned with the North Coast sub-region of the Marine Plan Partnership (MaPP) to produce an integrated North Coast  program with a focus on co-developing the foundation, assessment, management, and monitoring of four initial values: aquatic habitats – estuary, food security, access to resources and salmon. This integration allows work to advance efficiently, eliminating duplicated efforts and using the strength of the partnership to reach common goals.

Tags: British Columbia, Canada, North Coast Stewardship Program, Skeena Region
Organization: Regional Operations - Skeena
shishalh-BC Land Use Plan - Current Condition Assessment - Consolidated Roads 2021

BC Cumulative Effects Framework - Integrated Roads - 2021 clipped to the swiya boundary with a 20km buffer applied for shíshálh-BC Land Use Plan Current Condition Assessment. Clipped on January 11, 2023. Added two new fields to classify road use type for symbology in Current Condition Assessment maps.

Tags: BC Energy Regulator, BCER, British Columbia, CE, CEF, Canada, Cumulative Effects Framework, Current Condition Assessment, Energy Regulator, Integrated Roads, Land Use Planning, OGC, Oil and Gas Commission, Resource Roads, oil and gas, roads, shishalh, swiya
Organization: GeoBC Branch
Tsunami Notification Zones for BC

The Tsunami Notification Zone classifications are used to differentiate the notification areas along the coast of BC. These Zones are used to add BC specific information to tsunami alerts issued from West Coast Alaska Tsunami Warning Center. BC tsunami alerts are disseminated via the Provincial Emergency Notification System (PENS) which encompasses automated phone calls to key stakeholders, faxes, email distribution and updates on the emergencyinfobc.gov.bc.ca website as well as Environment Canada's WeatherOffice, WeatherRadio and MediaWeb services. Each zone has a corresponding level of general risk associated with it, based on a suite of potential tsunami scenarios, which allows emergency managers to estimate the level of risk in each zone.

Tags: EMCR, PEP, emergency management, emergency planning, incident management, land management, risk, tsunami
Organization: Emergency Management and Climate Readiness
Historic Trail Areas of British Columbia - Internal

This dataset contains spatial and tabular data on non-archaeological historic trails in B.C. Some of these trails, or sections of trail, are defined or protected under provincial legislation such as the Heritage Conservation Act. Other trails or trail segments are recorded but not legally protected. This dataset represents polygon feature data (e.g. cleared areas associated with trails).

Tags: BC, British Columbia, Environment, Heritage, Recreation, heritage, heritage trail, historic, trail
Organization: Heritage Branch
Background Groundwater Concentration Regions

Background groundwater concentration regions with estimates for 27 inorganic parameters in groundwater in British Columbia.

Tags: Aluminum, Antimony, Barium, Beryllium, Boron, Cadmium, Chromium, Cobalt, Copper, Groundwater, Hardness, Iron, Lead, Manganese, Mercury, Molybdenum, Nickel, Selenium, Silver, Sodium, Strontium, Thallium, Titanium, Zinc, arsenic, concentration, lithium, selenium, uranium, vanadium
Organization: Authorizations and Remediation
Old Growth Technical Advisory Panel (TAP) - SWB Woodland

This dataset defined by the Old Growth Technical Advisory Panel (TAP) depicts areas where any occurring old growth has a very low probability of being at-risk from forest harvesting. These areas are:  higher-elevation woodland ecosystems or ecosystems that are sparsely treed. 

For more information please consult the [Old Growth Technical Advisory Panel Report](https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/farming-natural-resources-and-industry/forestry/stewardship/old-growth-forests/summary_for_g2g_package.pdf).


Tags: Designated Areas, OG, Old Growth, Old Growth Management Area, Old Growth Strategic Review, TAP, Technical Advisory Panel
Organization: Provincial Stewardship Strategies and Planning
Old Growth Technical Advisory Panel (TAP) - Intact Watersheds

This dataset defined by the Old Growth Technical Advisory Panel (TAP) depicts <i>relative</i> watershed intactness based on the amount of logging and roads in each watershed.

For more information please consult the [Old Growth Technical Advisory Panel Report](https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/farming-natural-resources-and-industry/forestry/stewardship/old-growth-forests/summary_for_g2g_package.pdf).


Tags: Designated Areas, OG, Old Growth, Old Growth Management Area, Old Growth Strategic Review, TAP, Technical Advisory Panel
Organization: Provincial Stewardship Strategies and Planning
Provincial Site-based Voting Areas - Gazetted 02/23/2017

Site-based Voting Areas are a distinct type of voting area used to designate commercial, not-for-profit, or public residential care facilities that provide long-term care to voters where: 
•             the voters are residents;
•             the residents have medical or physical limitations that hinder their ability to travel to a regular voting place.

The  were used in the 2017 Provincial General Election and the 2018 Kelowna West By-Election.

The Site-based Voting Areas in this dataset were used in the 2017 Provincial General Election, the 2018 Kelowna West By-Election, the 2019 Nanaimo By-Election and the 2020 Provincial General Election.

Tags: Elections BC, Electoral Boundaries, PED, Redistribution, Site-based Voting Areas, Voting Areas
Organization: Elections BC
shishalh-BC LUP - Current Condition Assessment - Biogeoclimatic Ecosystem Classification Shifts

Recent and future geographic shifts in biogeoclimatic map unit distrubtion adapted from data provided by Colin Mahony (BC Ministry of Forests) for the shíshálh-BC Land Use Plan (LUP) Current Condition Assessment (CCA), following the method of: MacKenzie, W.H. and C.R. Mahony. 2021. An ecological approach to climate change-informed tree species selection for reforestation. Forest Ecology and Management 481:118705. 
Projections considered future period climate data available for BC. 

Tags: British Columbia, Canada, Current Condition Assessment, Land Use Planning, shishalh, swiya
Organization: GeoBC Branch
Historic Trail Areas of British Columbia

This dataset contains spatial and tabular data on non-archaeological historic trails in B.C. Some of these trails, or sections of trail, are defined or protected under provincial legislation such as the Heritage Conservation Act. Other trails or trail segments are recorded but not legally protected. This dataset represents polygon feature data (e.g. cleared areas associated with trails).

Tags: BC, British Columbia, Environment, Heritage, Recreation, heritage, heritage trail, historic, trail
Organization: Heritage Branch
BC Roads Map Service - Web Mercator *Deprecated*

**Deprecated as of November 2022.** 
This resource *has not been updated since 2018* and is only to be used for legacy application support. Please use the updated [BC Basemap - vector tile cache](https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/bc-basemap). Contact [GeoBC](GeoBCInfo@gov.bc.ca) for more information.

This tile cache map service application programming interface (API) returns georeferenced base map images and provides other associated capabilities as per the [Open Geospatial Consortium Web Mapping Service (WMS) Protocol](http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wms). Map images are output in Web Mercator projection (EPSG:3857) and match Google map tile scale levels.

This map service emphasizes the road network and complementary map features and presentation symbology.

See this [web page](http://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content?id=95D78D544B244F34B89223EF069DF74E) for more information on B.C. Map Services and how they can be used.

Tags: BC, Canada, TRIM, WMS, base, drainage, man made, populated places, railways, road, stream, surface, tile cache, toponymy, transportation, water
Organization: GeoBC Branch
Provincial Site-based and Point Voting Areas - Gazetted 12/23/2015

Site-based Voting Areas are a distinct type of voting area used to designate commercial, not-for-profit, or public residential care facilities that provide long-term care to voters where: 
•             the voters are residents;
•             the residents have medical or physical limitations that hinder their ability to travel to a regular voting place.

Point Voting Areas are a building or multiple buildings that contain up to 400 registered voters. Each electoral district is divided into voting areas that are used to assign voters to voting places.

These Voting Areas have been used in the following electoral events: 2016 Coquitlam-Burke Mountain by-election, 2016 Vancouver-Mount Pleasant by-election.

To adopt to changing demographics pursuant to section 80 of the Election Act, the boundaries of the voting areas of the Vancouver-Mount Pleasant and Coquitlam-Burke Mountain electoral districts have been adjusted in this dataset since the last gazette date.


Tags: Elections BC, Electoral Boundaries, PED, Point Voting Areas, Redistribution, Site-based Voting Areas, Voting Areas
Organization: Elections BC
Provincial Site-based and Point Voting Areas - Gazetted 09/27/2012

Site-based Voting Areas are a distinct type of voting area used to designate commercial, not-for-profit, or public residential care facilities that provide long-term care to voters where: 
•             the voters are residents;
•             the residents have medical or physical limitations that hinder their ability to travel to a regular voting place.

Point Voting Areas are a building or multiple buildings that contain up to 400 registered voters. Each electoral district is divided into voting areas that are used to assign voters to voting places.

These Voting Areas were used for the 2013 General Election.

To adapt to changing demographics, pursuant to section 80 of the Election Act, the voting area boundaries within the electoral districts of British Columbia have been adjusted in this dataset since the last gazette date.


Tags: Elections BC, Electoral Boundaries, PED, Point Voting Areas, Redistribution, Site-based Voting Areas, Voting Areas
Organization: Elections BC
Background Groundwater Concentration Region Sample Sites

Background groundwater concentration values for 27 inorganic parameters collected from specific sites in British Columbia. This data represents the 95th percentile of data collected from all the representative background monitoring wells on an individual site.  This data was used to calculate the regional groundwater background concentrations.

Tags: Groundwater, aluminum, antimony, arsenic, barium, beryllium, boron, cadmium, chromium, cobalt, concentration, copper, hardness, iron, lead, lithium, manganese, mercury, molybdenum, nickel, selenium, silver, sodium, strontium, thallium, titanium, uranium, vanadium, zinc
Organization: Authorizations and Remediation
Health Service Delivery Area Boundaries

Health Service Delivery Area (HSDA) boundaries; 2022 boundary configuration. 

The HSDAs are a mutually exclusive and exhaustive classification of the land area in BC. HSDAs are contiguous (land area is geographically adjacent) and fit within a geographical hierarchy structure, e.g., cannot violate higher-level geography boundaries Health Authorities (HA). 

Tags: HA, HSDA, Health, Health Authority, Health Boundary, Health Service Delivery Area
Organization: Performance, Partnerships and Methodologies
Old Growth Technical Advisory Panel (TAP) - Forest Assessment Land Base

This dataset reflects the forested area assessed by the Old Growth Technical Advisory Panel (TAP).  It contains a modified version of the provincial Vegetation Inventory (Vegetation Composite Polygons Rank 1 layer, aka VRI) forest management land base (FMLB). The modifications include such things as:
<br> •	Include areas with known forest harvesting history
<br> •	Exclude areas considered Vegetated but Non-Treed, where not otherwise considered forested
<br> •	Exclude natural disturbance type 5 (alpine tundra and subalpine parkland)

For more information please consult the [Old Growth Technical Advisory Panel Report](https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/farming-natural-resources-and-industry/forestry/stewardship/old-growth-forests/summary_for_g2g_package.pdf).


Tags: Designated Areas, OG, Old Growth, Old Growth Management Area, Old Growth Strategic Review, TAP, Technical Advisory Panel
Organization: Provincial Stewardship Strategies and Planning
BC Base Map Service - Web Mercator *Deprecated*

**Deprecated as of November 2022.** 
This resource *has not been updated since 2018* and is only to be used for legacy application support. Please use the updated [BC Basemap - vector tile cache](https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/bc-basemap). Contact [GeoBC](GeoBCInfo@gov.bc.ca) for more information.

This tile cache map service application programming interface (API) returns georeferenced base map images and provides other associated capabilities as per the [Open Geospatial Consortium Web Mapping Service (WMS) Protocol](http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wms).  Map images are output in Web Mercator projection (EPSG:3857) and match Google map tile scale levels.

See this [web page](http://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content?id=95D78D544B244F34B89223EF069DF74E) for more information on B.C. Map Services and how they can be used.

Source data contributed by B.C. Government (GeoBC), TomTom and OpenStreetMap. 

Tags: BC, Canada, TRIM, WMS, base, drainage, elevation, land cover, landform, man made, populated places, railways, road, stream, surface, tile cache, topography, toponymy, transportation, water
Organization: GeoBC Branch
Provincial Site-based Voting Areas - Gazetted 09/19/2024

Site-based Voting Areas are a distinct type of voting area used to designate commercial, not-for-profit, or public residential care facilities that provide long-term care to voters where: 

 the voters are residents; 

the residents have medical or physical limitations that hinder their ability to travel to a regular voting place.

The Site-based Voting Areas in this dataset will be used for the 2024 Provincial General Election scheduled for  October 19, 2024.


Tags: Elections BC, Electoral Boundaries, PED, Redistribution, Site-based Voting Areas, Voting Areas
Organization: Elections BC
Distribution of Sea Otters - Coastal Resource Information Management System (CRIMS)

Modeled data showing the likely distribution of sea otters. 

CRIMS is a legacy dataset of BC coastal resource data that was acquired in a systematic and synoptic manner from 1979 and was intermittently updated throughout the years. Resource information was collected in nine study areas using a peer-reviewed provincial Resource Information Standards Committee consisting of DFO Fishery Officers, First Nations, and other subject matter experts. There are currently no plans to update this legacy data.

Tags: distribution, marine mammal, sea otter
Organization: GeoBC Branch