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This historical map series consists of Forest Cover printed monochrome maps named using the National Topographic System (NTS) map sheet identifier. This series is not updated and contains a range of publication dates. The Forest Cover maps were created at a scale of 1:100 000.

This historical map series consists of Forest Cover printed monochrome maps named using the National Topographic System (NTS) map sheet identifier. This series is not updated and contains a range of publication dates. The Forest Cover maps were created at a scale of 1:100 000.

This historical map series consists of Forest Cover printed monochrome maps named using the National Topographic System (NTS) map sheet identifier. This series is not updated and contains a range of publication dates. The Forest Cover maps were created at a scale of 1:100 000.

This historical map series consists of Forest Cover printed monochrome maps named using the National Topographic System (NTS) map sheet identifier. This series is not updated and contains a range of publication dates. The Forest Cover maps were created at a scale of 1:100 000.

The Phase 1 (Broad Scale) Forest Inventory was initiated in 1949 and completed by 1956. The Phase 1 (Broad Scale) Forest Inventory included all publicly owned forested lands in the province except Indian lands, national parks, and an area known as the Rocky Mountains Forest Reserve. The Phase 1 (Broad Scale) Forest Inventory was used to define lands suitable for agriculture, to determine timber harvest levels and plan forest protection and timber and industrial development. Through aerial photo interpretation, land was classified as productive, potentially productive, or non-productive.

The Historical Watershed Boundary Maps consists of the watersheds printed colour maps within Alberta that were delineated as part of the Phase 3 Forest Inventory program. The maps have been scanned in black and white as well as colour. This product can be viewed on a computer, printed or plotted in part or in whole. All available maps are provided in Adobe PDF and Tif format sorted by the National Topographic System (NTS) 1:50 000 and 1:250 000 blocks within downloadable WinZip files.

This map series includes the Reconnaissance Vegetation Inventory maps as well as Current Vegetation Cover (CVC) for Wildlife Resource Inventory and the Assessment and Current Cover Types (CCT) for Wildlife Habitat Inventory. This series of reports and hardcopy maps provides a broad vegetation inventory for the Green Area and White Area. The maps depict both forestry and agricultural based vegetation cover types including those native and introduced to the province, as well as height, and density. In some cases non-vegetated areas are included in the inventory.

This series of 1:250 000 scale colour maps covers the provincial extent of Alberta and is comprised of 50 maps that are individually named using the National Topographic System (NTS) map sheet identifier. These maps display: Alberta Township System (ATS), contours (50m intervals), major hydrographic features, municipalities, major roads, railways, and select geo-administrative features (parks, reserves, etc.).

This series of cartographic quality printed 1:50 000 scale monochrome maps cover the provincial extent of Alberta comprised of 764 maps that are individually named using the National Topographic System (NTS) map sheet identifier. These maps display the Alberta Township System (ATS), hydrographic features, municipalities, roads, cutlines, facilities, pipelines, powerlines, railways, select geo-administrative features (parks, reserves, etc.). All maps contained within a 1:250 000 block (generally up to 16 map sheets) will be included in the NTS Block download.This series is not updated on a regular basis and may contain a range of publication dates.

The Historical Resource Base Series maps are a series of road and access maps created between 1993 and 1997. These printed monochrome maps are named using the National Topographic System (NTS) map sheet identifier within Alberta and contain the following features: roads and highways. railways and railway points. pipelines.