Nature Legacy protected areas are newly established protected areas and contribute to New Brunswick’s 10% target for protected land.

Non-Forest cover polygons interpreted from aerial imagery on a 10 year cycle for the province of New Brunswick. The attributes contain information that describes the non-forest characteristics for that polygon area including agriculture, settlement, utility corridors, etc.

The Renewable Resource Inventory Section of the Forest Planning and Stewardship Branch is responsible for generating an updated Forest (FO), Wetland (WL), and Non-forest (NF) layer annually. Photo interpretation of digital aerial photography (DAP) and the Canopy Height Model (CHM) derived from LiDAR are used in combination to produce these layers. The Forest layer provided here is for New Brunswick Crown Land only. Wetlands (WL) and Non-forest (NF) are displayed for the entire Province. It should be noted that these layers should not be confused with regulatory layers provided by other Departments, specifically, Wetland layer provided by ELG.

To identify the limits of provincial parks in New Brunswick, to provide the public with a digital representation of the provincial parks, and to promote the use of a common geometric representation of the provincial parks of New Brunswick.

Territories of ecological interest in the City of Trois-Rivières**This third party metadata element was translated using an automated translation tool (Amazon Translate).**

Protected Natural Areas are sanctuaries that allow nature to exist with minimal human interference. They host a diversity of wildlife and plants across a range of forests, lakes, rivers, streams and wetlands. For more information, please refer to the Protected Natural Areas website.