Ministry of Environment
Environmental Stewardship Division
The Strength of an Atlas
The Sensitive Ecosystems Inventory has been used as a data layer in environmental atlases.
CRD Natural Areas Atlas
The Capital Regional District’s Natural Areas Atlas is part of an ongoing effort to bring all environmental information about the CRD into a single, user-friendly, web-based source. The Atlas includes a myriad of data such as known fish distributions, parks and trails, rare species occurrences, cadastral boundaries, stream survey information, Garry oak distribution (current and historical)—and, of course, Sensitive Ecosystems Inventory data.
Information can be presented at any scale, and can be (at large scale) superimposed on an orthophoto base. It is an excellent way to view SEI information in the Capital Region, as it shows the primary ecosystem type as well as presence of secondary ecosystem type (if applicable). Clicking on the polygon brings up the database information associated with that polygon (and a second click will take you to the legend, if the codes don’t mean anything to you!)
For more information, and to access the Natural Areas Atlas, go to www.naturalareasatlas.ca
Note that these atlases present SEI data at the scale of
your choice, but the boundary information is only accurate
to the
scale of the source air photo – usually 1:10,000 or 1:15,000.
Anyone using this data for site-specific purposes is advised
to verify information through field checking.
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