The field plots were used to help during the photo interpretation process. The plots provided essential information to interpreters to relate photo observed attributes with field measurements. The use of ground-truthing (field plots) to cross check the accuracy of the aerial photography data is a common method.

When the tenure data differs from the actual post locations on the ground, we use adjoining parcelsto show that the area has no open ground.

Oil Sands Agreement feature class contains provincial extent polygon features representing Oil Sands applications, agreements, leases, and licences, with varying term dates and conditions. These applications and subsequent agreements give the holder the right to explore Oil Sands.

A placer claim is a parcel of land located or granted for placer mining. A claim also includes any ditches or water rights used for mining the claim, and all other things belonging to or used in the working of the claim for mining purposes. A placer claim is a rectangular plot of ground. All angles of a claim must be right angles, except in the cases where a boundary line of a previously located claim is adopted as common to both locations. The length of a regular placer claim from post one to post two is 500 feet along a baseline. Co-discovery claims must not exceed 1250 feet each, and single discovery claims must not exceed 1500 feet. The Placer Mining Act is available at http://www.gov.yk.ca/legislation/acts/plmi.pdf Visit http://www.emr.gov.yk.ca/mining/placermining.html for detail on how to staked, record and maintain a Placer Claim.

Place name annotation captured at 1:50,000 scale. Part of the digital NTDB (National Topographic Data Base) from NRCAN (Natural Resources Canada)

The Yukon Territory is underlain by a great variety of rock types ranging in age from Early Proterozoic to Recent and representing diverse environments including epicratonic basins, subsiding shelves, foreland basins, island arcs and deep ocean basins. Episodes of compressional and extensional deformation, transcurrent faulting, metamorphism and plutonism further complicate the map pattern. This complex geological record has been described in terms of the interactions of several terranes (large parts of the earth's crust which preserve a common geological record) with each other and with the margin of ancestral North America.

/KFN-WRFN Overlap Resolution Boundary/ means the boundary which, for the purposes of Settlement Agreements, eliminates the KFN-WRFN Overlapping Area.

A placer claim is a parcel of land located or granted for placer mining. A claim also includes any ditches or water rights used for mining the claim and all other things belonging to or used in the working of the claim for mining purposes. A placer claim is a rectangular plot of ground. All angles of a claim must be right angles, except in the cases where a boundary line of a previously located claim is adopted as common to both locations. The length of a regular placer claim from post one to post two is 500 feet along a baseline. Co-discovery claims must not exceed 1250 feet each and single discovery claims must not exceed 1500 feet. The Placer Mining Act is available at http://www.gov.yk.ca/legislation/acts/plmi.pdf Visit http://www.emr.gov.yk.ca/mining/placermining.html for detail on how to stake, record and maintain a Placer Claim.

Road annotation captured at 1:1,000,000 scale against the Digital Chart of the World base from the Canada Department of Energy, Mines and Resources Surveys & Mapping Branch 1:1,000,000 Yukon Territory Map for the Yukon and surrounding area.

Petroleum and Natural Gas Agreement feature class contains provincial extent polygon features representing Petroleum and Natural Gas applications, agreements, leases, and licences, with varying term dates and conditions. These applications and subsequent agreements give the holder the right to explore Petroleum and Natural Gas.