Ontario. Ministry of Natural Resources. Field Services Division (1996-2010)

• Field Services Division

Established in 1996, the Field Services Division assumed responsibility for field offices, floods, fire and aviation from the dissolved Operations Division.

Based on a decentralized structure, the Division had offices located throughout Ontario and delivered programs in 70 resource management areas. Each area was the responsibility of an Area Team, a unit of staff from a range of resource management teams. The Area Teams were also divided into three regions - Northwest, Northeast, and Southcentral - based on the ecological diversity of Ontario. Specifically, the northern regions encompassed boreal forests, the lowlands, and the sub-arctic while the southern region covered the Canadian Shield with its hardwoods and transitional forests, as well as wetland, lakes, rivers, and the urban and rural landscape south of the Shield.

The Division was led by the Assistant Deputy Minister of Natural Resources, Field Services Division. It was composed of the three regions, the Provincial Enforcement Section, and the Native Affairs (later Aboriginal Affairs) Unit.

The Division was dissolved in the 2010 reorganization of the Ministry of Natural Resources.

The Field Services Division was the Ministry of Natural Resources' front-line organization responsible for program delivery. The programs implemented by the Division ranged from managing natural resources such as fisheries, forests, and provincial lands, to managing the MNR's resources such as finances, facilities and engineering infrastructure, equipment, vehicles and aircraft, and staff.

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