Wek'eezhii and Southern NWT boreal caribou range planning regions – Northwest Territories (re-hosted copy for reproducibility)

This dataset is a vector spatial dataset (ESRI shapefile) containing polygon boundaries of the Wek'èezhìi and Southern Northwest Territories boreal caribou range planning regions. These regions are used for land-use planning and management of boreal caribou populations in the Northwest Territories, Canada. This dataset is a re-hosted copy of spatial data originally produced by the Government of Northwest Territories (GNWT). The data were obtained from the NWT Spatial Data Viewer: https://www.maps.geomatics.gov.nt.ca/Html5Viewer/index.html?viewer=NWT_SHV Extraction of the shapefile followed the official user guidelines: https://www.geomatics.gov.nt.ca/sites/geomatics/files/resources/shv_user_manual_0.pdf The dataset is provided here solely to support reproducibility of analyses conducted in: Guilhem et al. (2026). gvaMapping: a SpaDES module for mapping ground vegetation attributes from plot data and land cover products (manuscript). No modifications were made to the original data. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence Northwest Territories.