1.0 NAP 150000000 5000 FDA4060D-AD07-486A-B63D-0D088A3A9186 dataset Alberta Environment and Protected Areas, Government of Alberta Provincial Geospatial Centre 14th Floor, Oxbridge Place Edmonton Alberta T5K 2J6 PGC.Metadata@gov.ab.ca CA 9820 - 106 Street NW Alberta Environment and Parks, Government of Alberta 20260303 ArcGIS Metadata 1.0 Altalis Ltd. 4037163490 4037163494 Suite 1550, 635 - 8 Avenue SW Calgary Alberta T2P 3M3 CA support@altalis.com 08:00 to 16:30 Monday to Friday The layer is a part of the Base Features product which can be accessed and downloaded via the Open Data option from Altalis: https://www.altalis.com https://geospatial.alberta.ca/mimas/rest/services/boundaries/land_public_land_rec_area_public/MapServer REST boundaries/land_public_land_rec_area_public (MapServer) Web service for Public Land Recreation Area dataset https://geospatial.alberta.ca/mimas/rest/services/boundaries/land_public_land_rec_area_public/FeatureServer REST boundaries/land_public_land_rec_area_public (FeatureServer) Web service for Public Land Recreation Area dataset https://geospatial.alberta.ca/mimas/services/boundaries/land_public_land_rec_area_public/MapServer/WMSServer REST boundaries/land_public_land_rec_area_public (WMSServer) Web service for Public Land Recreation Area dataset https://geospatial.alberta.ca/mimas/rest/services/boundaries/land_public_land_rec_area_public/MapServer/generateKml KML boundaries/land_public_land_rec_area_public (generateKml) KML download for Public Land Recreation Area dataset https://geospatial.alberta.ca/portal/home/item.html?id=6596892b8f7649f08a4469e2adfb5506 HTTPS Public Land Recreation Area GoA Portal page for the Public Land Recreation Area feature layer service Enterprise Geodatabase Feature Class 3.0 Shapefile 3.0 SHP ZIP File Geodatabase 3.0 FGDB ZIP Alberta Environment and Protected Areas, Government of Alberta Provincial Geospatial Centre 14th Floor, Oxbridge Place Edmonton Alberta T5K 2J6 PGC.Data@gov.ab.ca CA 9820 - I06 Street NW This is the point of contact for the map and feature services. Please contact the above email with any questions or to report a problem. https://www.altalis.com/map;id=117 HTTPS Geo-Administrative Areas Website for downloading Geo-Administrative Areas data Public Land Recreation Area 2026-03-03T00:00:00 2012-02-15T00:00:00 2026-03-03T00:00:00 Alberta Environment and Protected Areas, Government of Alberta Provincial Geospatial Centre 14th Floor, Oxbridge Place Edmonton Alberta T5K 2J6 PGC.Metadata@gov.ab.ca CA 9820 - 106 Street NW Alberta Environment and Parks, Government of Alberta Lands Operation Division, Alberta Forestry and Parks, Government of Alberta Public Lands Policy Unit Program Area 3rd Floor, Petroleum Plaza South Tower Edmonton Alberta T5K 2G8 CA 9915 - 108 Street NW PublicLandsPolicy@gov.ab.ca <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN>The Public Land Recreation Area dataset is comprised of all the polygons that represent Public Land Recreation Areas in Alberta. A Public Land Recreation Area is an area of recreation land designated under the authority of Section 179 of the Public Lands Administration Regulation under the Public Lands Act. Public Land Recreation Area was formerly known as Forest Recreation Area under the Forest Recreation Regulation under the Forests Act. No changes to the Forest Recreation Area data layer were made when it was migrated to become the Public Land Recreation Area dataset.</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV> The Public Land Recreation Area dataset provides users with GIS ready polygonal representation of all Public Land Recreation Areas in the province of Alberta, and is suitable for indexing or analysis purposes. Public land Recreation area ESRI ArcCatalog 9.3.1.4000 The defining document is Alberta Regulation 187/2011 Public Lands Act, Public Lands Administration Regulation Schedule 5 Public Land Recreation Areas which can be viewed at https://kings-printer.alberta.ca/1266.cfm?page=2011_187.cfm&leg_type=Regs&isbncln=9780779760190&display=html&CFID=197786199&CFTOKEN=72b6492e0c24f1ef-9EC7576E-A217-C155-943711DF9E608768 Alberta, Canada Alberta Environment and Protected Areas, Government of Alberta Provincial Geospatial Centre 14th Floor, Oxbridge Place Edmonton Alberta T5K 2J6 PGC.Metadata@gov.ab.ca CA 9820 - 106 Street NW Alberta Environment and Parks, Government of Alberta To access the data you must agree to the terms of the Open Government Licence - Alberta found at https://open.alberta.ca/licence Your use of this information will be governed by the terms of the Open Government Licence - Alberta, in force as of the date you accessed the information, found at https://open.alberta.ca/licence Distribution Liability: Under the terms of the Open Government Licence - Alberta, the Information is licensed as is, and the Information Provider excludes all representations, warranties, obligations, and liabilities, whether express or implied, to the maximum extent permitted by law. The Information Provider is not liable for any errors or omissions in the Information, and will not under any circumstances be liable for any direct, indirect, special, incidental, consequential, or other loss, injury or damage caused by its use or otherwise arising in connection with this licence or the Information, even if specifically advised of the possibility of such loss, injury or damage. Public Government of Alberta Data and Information Security Classification https://imtpolicy.sp.alberta.ca/standards/Pages/Data-and-Information-Security-Classification.aspx 1 -120.207050 -109.730630 59.128042 49.583830 For each recreation area captured, exterior road allowances are excluded but interior road allowances are included. In the renaming exercise, migrating Forest Recreation Area to Public Land Recreation Area; the overlap issue of Cardinal River with Indian Reserve Cardinal River No. 234 still exists. A review of the spatial data layer and PLAR is required to ensure alignment and appropriate updating occurs. This has not been completed to date. In the renaming exercise, an additional item field named 'TYPE' has been added to the polygon attribute table, to identify the designated public land use type as defined in the Public Land Acts, Public Land Administration Regulation (PLAR). Base Features Source Data includes arc layers of ATS, Hydrography, Hypsography, Access and Master Height of Land The Public Land Recreation Area (former Forest Recreation Area) boundary is built by selecting and putting available Source Data (described below) into an edit environment of the layer, to assemble the Geoadministrative Areas (GA) boundary. The GA boundary built uses Base Features (BF) Source Data which includes arc layers of Alberta Township System (ATS), Hydrography, Hypsography and Access. In cases where BF Source Data does not exist, Alberta Data Partnerships (ADP) Cadastral Source Data including block, lot, plan, ownership and right-of-way are used. Legal Subdivision (LSD) arcs supplied by ADP are also used. ATS v4.1 data layer is considered to be the foundation by which all other Source Data should be registered with when the GA boundary layer is compiled. The Cadastral Source Data maintained by ADP is used in the hierarchy order of block, lot, plan and right-of-way; regardless which version it is. The ADP cadastral representation of ATS and Hydrography is not used. The ADP LSD arcs are used for boundary segments that are interpreted as aligning with legal subdivision lines according to the defining document; but the representation of Section, Quarter Section and Road Allowance are not allowed to be used as these lines should be derived from the BF ATS Source Data. If none of the above Source Data is available and the defining document refers a specific elevation or contour, Hypsography contour data is used. If no source arc for the particular contour or elevation exists, interpolation of the contours or elevation graphically is obtained by averaging between successive contours on either side of the range of elevation values. If the defining document describes a mountain peak, interpretation of the contours to determine the highest point of the peak is determined or in certain cases a spot height point in the Hypsography cartographic layer is used to identify the peak. If the defining document describes a boundary segment as Height-of-Land (HOL), HOL data is captured by digitization or graphical construction. In cases if the GA boundary is described, but no Source Data is available except from a digital reference file provided by data authority, with data authority's expressed permission, arcs are copied from the digital reference file. Segments of the boundary which adjoin to Provincial Boundary or National Park, arcs are copied from these 2 layers to define the GA boundary so that the layer does conform to these 2 key layers. Once all the Source Data has been copied and put into the edit environment, Constructed arcs are used to close polygon in cases where a gap between 2 Source Data arcs exceeds 0.001 meters. If a gap is less than 0.001 meters, one of the Source Data is extended to close the polygon, in accordance with the Source Data edit hierarchy i.e. with the highest order of importance to the least importance which is in the order of ATS, Hydrography, Hypsography, ADP data, Access, Height-of-Land or digitized arcs and digital reference file. Spatial relationship of the boundary layer compiled is maintained with the Base Features (BF) Source data and other Source Data with the geometry of all the Source Data remains unaltered throughout the editing process. Edit tolerance is set to zero for node snap and arc snap. The GA polygons compiled have all the linework precisely closed. Attribute tables are created according to item definition, with only one label point exists per GA polygon. Clean processes on the Source Data beyond the tolerances specified above is prohibited. Source Data is edited manually in order to maintain polygon topology using BUILD processes. After polygons are built, they are attributed according to the Base Features GA Specification table standard i.e. CODE and NAME. The formatted polygon attribute values are validated with Forest Recreation Area codes and legal names obtained from the Department. Initial compilation 2012-02-15T00:00:00 Alberta Environment and Protected Areas, Government of Alberta Information and Data Provisioning Services, Informatics Branch, Corporate Services Division PGC.Metadata@gov.ab.ca Update: Syncline Cross-Country Skiing is removed based on the Public Lands Administration Regulation (consolidated up to 57/2017) Schedule 5.Engstrom Remote correction: A piece of land, LSD 5, is removed. PLRA which have been consumed by Parks but not amended in the Regulation are to remain. 2017-06-01T00:00:00 Amend: O.C. 24/2017, A.R. 6/2017 Appendix Public Lands Act Public Lands Administration Amendment Regulation 'Allison Day Use/Cross Country Ski Staging' Update: Musreau Lake Day Use 'AR 187/2011'..... the west half of legal subdivision 5 not covered by .....' Missing subdivision 5 'of Section 24' in the Regulation. In the Regulation 'Lake Remote' should be 'Nose Lake Remote'. This will be addressed in future amendments to the Regulation. 2017-07-01T00:00:00 Removed 13 superfluous polygons with no attribute information. These were originally present to fill donut holes in polygons which were necessary for old scripts and data formats, which are now obsolete. 2023-12-21T00:00:00 Geometry updates - Little Sundance Creek Snowmobiling: removed portion of boundary to the southwest of Swanson Forest Road, as per the legal description. - Mariana Lake: removed area overlapping with road plan. - Blackstone Viewpoint: updated boundary to match road plan 439 F as per legal description 2025-11-18T00:00:00 Made several updates to align boundaries with dispositions and survey plans. 2026-01-30T00:00:00 64 EPSG 6.11(9.3.0.0) BaseMapping.GDB.BF_GEO_PUBLND_REC_AREA_POLYGON Public Land Recreation Area polygons in the province of Alberta Alberta Regulation 187/2011 Public Lands Act, Public Lands Administration Regulation (consolidated up to 57/2017) Schedule 5 Public Land Recreation Areas Feature Class 64 OBJECTID OBJECTID OID 4 10 0 Internal feature number. ESRI Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated. PLREC_NAME Public Land Recreation Area name Alberta Regulation 187/2011 Public Lands Act, Public Lands Administration Regulation Schedule 5 Public Land Recreation Areas Public Land Recreation Areas Alberta Regulation 187/2011 Public Lands Act, Public Lands Administration Regulation Schedule 5 Public Land Recreation Areas PLREC_NAME String 80 0 0 PLREC_CODE A sequential unique alphanumeric code assigned to each Public Land Recreation Area Base Features Geoadministrative Areas Specification Public Land Recreation Area Codes Base Features Geoadministrative Areas Specification PLREC_CODE String 5 0 0 TYPE Public land use code corresponding to declared public land use types in the Public Lands Administration Regulation AR 187/2011, Part 9 Public Land Uses, Division 1 Zones, Areas, and Trails for Recreation Public Lands Division, Alberta Environment and Parks, Government of Alberta <NULL> An unregulated area enclosed by or adjacent to one or more Public Land Use types. Public Lands Division, Alberta Environment and Parks, Government of Alberta PLUZ Public Land Use Zone Public Lands Division, Alberta Environment and Parks, Government of Alberta PLREC Public Land Recreation Area Public Lands Division, Alberta Environment and Parks, Government of Alberta PLRT Public Land Recreation Trail Public Lands Division, Alberta Environment and Parks, Government of Alberta TYPE String 80 0 0 GlobalID GlobalID GlobalID 38 0 0 SHAPE Shape Geometry 8 0 0 Feature geometry. ESRI Coordinates defining the features. Shape.STArea() Shape.STArea() Double 0 0 0 Shape.STLength() Shape.STLength() Double 0 0 0