Environmentally Significant Areas

Updated: December 15, 2006

There are two reports and associated GIS data sets providing information on Environmentally Significant Areas (ESAs) in Alberta available from this web site. The two data sets have not been integrated and there are areas of overlap between the two.

Environmentally Significant Areas of Alberta Vol 1-3, is a provincial overview of ESAs in Alberta, as of March 1997. The report is a review and synthesis of ESA work completed in the period 1983 - 1996. Included are sites that have been identified as being of "Provincial", or higher, significance level (i.e. International, National or Provincial). The report and associated GIS data set covers almost the entire province, although portions of the Rocky Mountain Natural Region are not included.

Users should consult the report(s) for interpretation and background information, including methodology, definitions of ESAs and significance levels, the criteria to identify sites and individual site descriptions.

 

Environmentally Significant Areas of Alberta

 

ESA Inventory of the Rocky Mountain Natural Region

was completed in January 1998 and covers the Rocky Mountain Natural Region, excluding Jasper National Park. This report includes sites that have been identified as being of Local and Regional significance as well as Provincial or higher significance level (i.e. International, National or Provincial).

Users should consult the report for interpretation and background information, including methodology, definitions of ESAs and significance levels, the criteria to identify sites and individual site descriptions.

 

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Prepared by: Treeline Ecological Research, Sherwood Park, AB