Administrative grouping of Habitat polygons into Natural areas maintained by Calgary Parks or located on lands under Calgary Parks Stewardship.

This dataset identifies the Natural Water Bodies on lands under Calgary Parks Stewardship. It can be a flowing type of water i.e. STREAM or some type of body of water i.e. NATURAL POND. Types of WATER BODIES are: CREEK – CONSTRUCTION, NATURAL CREEK OR STREAM, NATURAL RIVER, OXBOW, NATURAL LAKE, NATURAL POND, SPRING, and WETLAND.

This is a composite land cover layer created from multiple City data sources and compiled into a single seamless land cover layer in 2015. The final land cover layer was checked against the City of Calgary’s 2014 air photo at a minimum of 1:4000. Missing and/or overlapping areas were resolved manually and City parks were reviewed at 1:1000 resolution. The land cover dataset informs several City analyses, including a Habitat Condition Rating model to assess natural area park health and a structural wildlife connectivity model, where land cover resistance values act as the difficulty rankings for terrestrial wildlife movement. The dataset can also be used in analyses of open/park space contiguity.

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