the policy to revert these areas to a wilderness state and to 

 permit public rather than private use of certain areas. 



Included in the land acquisition program are nine projects 

 that are approved under the A.R.D.A. Federal/Provincial 

 Rural Development Agreement. 



LAND INVENTORY 



The Land Inventory Unit continued to carry out an inven- 

 tory of the lands for the Province for both national and 

 provincial requirements. The national phase is the joint 

 Federal/Provincial Canada Land Inventory Program which 

 covers the agricultural and marginal agricultural areas of 

 the province. 



These lands are described in terms of physiographic and 

 biological features and evaluated for their capability to pro- 

 vide recreational experience, forest and wildlife crops. Field 

 work for recreation and forestry evaluations were com- 

 pleted on Agreement area during this fiscal year. Approxi- 

 mately 10 per cent of the Agreement area remains to be 

 covered for the wildlife evaluation. 



The cartographic production has been maintained at a 

 high level, and the following represents a summary of the 

 number of maps compiled and drafted. 



(a) Canada Land Inventory 



Sector Map Scale 



1 :250,000 1 :50,000 



Recreation 8 226 



Wildlife 9 190 



Forestry 11 — 



(b) Ontario Land Inventory 



Sector Map Scale 



1 :250,D00 1 :50,000 



Land Classification 10 — 



Wildlife — 188 



Recreation 1 — 



Forestry 10 — 



ACCESS ROADS 



As provided for under the provisions of Part 1A of The Public 

 Lands Act, thirty-two roads in northern Ontario, comprising 

 441 miles, have been designated as public forest roads. In 

 addition, three private forest roads of industry, comprising 

 87 miles, are now under agreement with the Department 

 for the shared cost of maintenance. This provides for the 

 public's use of these roads. This program will be expanded 

 in the next fiscal year as the need develops. 



WATER MANAGEMENT 



This LJnit provides management of water resource through 

 approval of dams under The Lakes and Rivers Improvement 



Act; determination of the terms and conditions, and prep- 

 aration of water power lease agreements under The Water 

 Power Regulation Act; administration of licences of occu- 

 pation for dams constructed principally for log driving pur- 

 poses; and administration of the reconstruction of old dams. 

 In addition, special engineering consultation services are 

 provided in fisheries and waterfowl management projects. 



SURVEYS SECTION 



ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES 



The main responsibilities discharged by the Sub-section are 

 the custody of survey records and the distribution of repro- 

 ductions for sale to the public and the official use of all 

 government departments, as well as maps and publications 

 produced by the Department, and maps of the National 

 Topographic Series as produced by the federal Department 

 of Energy, Mines and Resources, Ottawa. 



An increase of over one-third of the quantity of the 

 Provincial Topographic Series map sheets distributed over 

 that of the previous year was due to the production of 

 seven new sheets as well as seven revised editions. The distri- 

 bution of the Provincial Territorial Series and miscellaneous 

 maps also increased, due to four maps being produced. 



Increased distribution of the National Topographic Series 

 maps, by approximately twenty per cent, is also to be 

 noted due to additional new and revised sheets being pro- 

 duced, as well as a number of the 1 :50,000 scaled sheets in 

 east and west halves being combined into a single sheet. 



Numerous enquiries for historical and genealogical in- 

 formation continued to be received, and there was a 

 greater number of plans and field notes of Crown subdivi- 

 sions and retracement surveys, mounted or bound, cata- 

 logued and filed in the Surveys Records Library. 



The demand for reproductions of plans and field notes 

 also continued to increase over the past year. 



CARTOGRAPHIC MAPPING 



Lands alienated from the Crown were indicated for the 

 first time on maps of the Provincial Series one-inch-to-two- 

 mile maps. This additional information was introduced to 

 meet the needs of a number of disciplines within and with- 

 out the Department. A total of eleven maps were produced. 



Two maps of the one-inch-to-eight-mile series were re- 

 vised and improved upon depletion of existing stocks; these 

 were Map 23 "Thunder Bay" and Map 22 "Algoma, Sud- 

 bury and Timiskaming". 



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