University of California, Riverside 20170728 vector digital data https://www.wildlife.ca.gov/Data/BIOS http://ftp.wildlife.ca.gov/BDB/GIS/BIOS/Public_Datasets/2900_2999/ds2936.zip This polygon feature class contains the assigned vegetation type (Alliance) or land cover type, and other attributes.The original vegetation map described above was prepared for publication in CDFW's Biogeographic Information and Observation System (BIOS) by the Vegetation Classification and Mapping Program (VegCAMP). The primary purpose for creating these maps is provide a landscape-scale approach to monitoring changes due to land use, invasive species, recreation, hydrology, and climate. These digital maps, documenting changes and their causes, are then tools for prioritizing future conservation actions. The outdated map of the Coachella Valley MSHCP areas, created before 1999, was based on the Holland classification system and was inconsistent with current standards prescribed by CDFW’s Vegetation Classification and Mapping Program (VegCaMP). As part of the CVMSHCP/NCCP monitoring program, a phased work plan to remap all 746,000 acres of Conservation Areas began in 2012. These mapping areas together nearly complete the remap of the Plan Area, together with other Conservation Lands mapped by other entities, and previous work by UCR CCB. The completion of these maps updates the 2007 CVMSHCP/NCCP natural community map. This section of the map provides critical information to assist in monitoring habitat suitability in conservation areas, and quantifies attributes to help researchers understand the effects of environmental variability, including drought and climate change. An updated vegetation map was required to enhance understanding of species and their habitats, and identify management needs to ensure persistence of target species within the Plan area. The updated vegetation map is an essential element of monitoring for other covered species and natural communities and provides a baseline to monitor natural communities and landscape-scale vegetation change. Quantification of biotic habitat variables help document factors that may influence species population fluctuation. These data are key to conservation of biological diversity in the Plan area, in light of the listed threats to habitats in this management unit: invasive species; threats to hydrological regime/processes; climate change and habitat fragmentation, wildfire management, off-highway vehicle use, and other anthropogenic surface disturbance (CVMSHCP, Section 8). Understanding habitat requirements for species will help to guide the development of land management actions that support recovery and sustainability of healthy populations. Data produced under this effort is publicly available and supports concurrent CVMSHCP/NCCP monitoring. 20130401 20170430 This map and report addresses the area of overlap between the newly-designated Sand to Snow National Monument and the CVMSHCP Plan Area (47,256 acres), hereafter, the “Sand to Snow/CVMSHCP mapping area.” The Conservation Areas within the mapping area are: Cabazon, Whitewater Canyon, Stubbe and Cottonwood Canyons, and the Upper Mission/Big Morongo Conservation areas. Fieldwork, photo-interpretation and mapping were performed from 2016-2017. Within the study areas, rapid assessment protocol vegetation plots and supplemental reconnaissance observations were obtained within the study at pre-determined points in order to document the plant community, disturbances, and invasive species across space and types. Photo-interpretation of 2013 imagery and field information were combined to produce delineations of vegetation alliances and associations according to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife classification system, outlined in the Manual of California Vegetation Second Edition (Sawyer et al. 2009). Thus, the current version of the map best represents the status of vegetation in 2013. Complete As needed -116.829097 -116.461786 34.043250 33.917937 None vegetation, land cover, plants ISO 19115 Topic Categories biota environment None Sand to Snow National Monument San Bernardino National Forest Coachella Valley Riverside County California United States North America None The original public dataset was funded by the Coachella Valley Association of Governments. The authors of this dataset (Center for Conservation Biology, University of California, Riverside) and the Coachella Valley Association of Governments must be cited if used in a published study or as appropriate. CDFW appreciates learning how our datasets are being used so that we can leverage support for classifying and mapping new areas and let users know of any updates. Please contact VegCAMP (https://wildlife.ca.gov/Data/VegCAMP) when using this dataset.License: This work is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Using the citation standards recommended for BIOS datasets ( https://www.wildlife.ca.gov/Data/BIOS/Citing-BIOS) satisfies the attribution requirements of this license.Disclaimer:The State makes no claims, promises, or guarantees about the accuracy, completeness, reliability, or adequacy of these data and expressly disclaims liability for errors and omissions in these data. No warranty of any kind, implied, expressed, or statutory, including but not limited to the warranties of non-infringement of third party rights, title, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and freedom from computer virus, is given with respect to these data. University of California, Riverside Cameron Barrows Project Scientist mailing and physical

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Palm Desert CA 92211 US 760-834-0594 lynn.sweet@ucr.edu Cameron W. Barrows - (UC Riverside Center for Conservation Biology)- Project lead; Lynn C. Sweet (UC Riverside Center for Conservation Biology) - vegetation assessments coordinator, creation and attribution of polygons, classification; James Heintz (UC Riverside Center for Conservation Biology) - vegetation field assessments, classification; Roxann Merizan (UC Riverside Center for Conservation Biology) - vegetation field assessments; Robert F. Johnson (UC Riverside Center for Conservation Biology) - GIS coordinator and analysis of geometry; geodatabase creation Version 6.2 (Build 9200) ; Esri ArcGIS 10.5.1.7333 Vector GT-polygon composed of chains 938 NAD 1983 California Teale Albers 34.0 40.5 -120.0 0.0 0.0 -4000000.0 coordinate pair 0.0001 0.0001 meter D North American 1983 GRS 1980 6378137.0 298.257222101 ds2936 See Sawyer et al. 2009; CDFW 2013 Sawyer, John O., Todd Keeler-Wolf, and Julie Evens. 2009. Manual of California Vegetation. California Native Plant Society Press.; California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW 2013). 2013 California Desert Vegetation Map and Accuracy Assessment in Support of the Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan. CDFW Vegetation Classification and Mapping Program and Aerial Information Systems, Inc. for CDFW and the California Energy Commission. Sacramento, CA. https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=62825 OBJECTID Internal feature number. ESRI Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated. Shape Feature geometry. ESRI Coordinates defining the features. NVCSName The standardized name of the vegetation description used in the 2008 National Vegetation Classification System. Since the NVCS does not have categories for human land use or otherwise unvegetated land, those descriptions were drawn from the California Wildlife Habitat Relationship. http://usnvc.org/ NVCSLevel The standardized level of the vegetation description used in the 2008 National Vegetation Classification System. http://usnvc.org/ Macrogroup The macrogroup-level classification of a vegetation stand in the UCR CCB hierarchy. Sweet, Lynn C. et al. CVMSHCP Conservation Areas within Sand to Snow National Monument Vegetation Map Report. Coachella Valley Conservation Commission; 6/2007. Available from: https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=162302 MapClass Group_ The group-level classification of a vegetation stand in the UCR CCB hierarchy. Sweet, Lynn C. et al. CVMSHCP Conservation Areas within Sand to Snow National Monument Vegetation Map Report. Coachella Valley Conservation Commission; 6/2007. Available from: https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=162302 Common_Name The common name of a vegetation type as determined by UCR's CCB. Sweet, Lynn C. et al. CVMSHCP Conservation Areas within Sand to Snow National Monument Vegetation Map Report. Coachella Valley Conservation Commission; 6/2007. Available from: https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=162302 Alliance The alliance-level classification of a vegetation stand in the UCR CCB hierarchy. Sweet, Lynn C. et al. CVMSHCP Conservation Areas within Sand to Snow National Monument Vegetation Map Report. Coachella Valley Conservation Commission; 6/2007. Available from: https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=162302 Association The association-level classification of a vegetation stand in the UCR CCB hierarchy. Sweet, Lynn C. et al. CVMSHCP Conservation Areas within Sand to Snow National Monument Vegetation Map Report. Coachella Valley Conservation Commission; 6/2007. Available from: https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=162302 TreeCov Map classes for total cover by trees within the vegetation mapping unit Menke, J., E. Reyes, A. Glass, D. Johnson and J. Reyes. 2013 California Vegetation Map in Support of the Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan. California Dept. of Fish and Wildlife, California Energy Commission; 4/2013. Available from: http://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=62826 ShrubCov Map classes for total cover by shrubs within the vegetation mapping unit Menke, J., E. Reyes, A. Glass, D. Johnson and J. Reyes. 2013 California Vegetation Map in Support of the Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan. California Dept. of Fish and Wildlife, California Energy Commission; 4/2013. Available from: http://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=62826 HerbCov Map classes for total cover by herbs within the vegetation mapping unit Menke, J., E. Reyes, A. Glass, D. Johnson and J. Reyes. 2013 California Vegetation Map in Support of the Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan. California Dept. of Fish and Wildlife, California Energy Commission; 4/2013. Available from: http://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=62826 Exotics Map classes for total cover by exotic plant species within the vegetation mapping unit Menke, J., E. Reyes, A. Glass, D. Johnson and J. Reyes. 2013 California Vegetation Map in Support of the Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan. California Dept. of Fish and Wildlife, California Energy Commission; 4/2013. Available from: http://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=62826 Roadedness Roadedness defined as the level of impact in a mapping unit by paved and unpaved roads, OHV trails, railroads, berms, and covered aqueduct. Menke, J., E. Reyes, A. Glass, D. Johnson and J. Reyes. 2013 California Vegetation Map in Support of the Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan. California Dept. of Fish and Wildlife, California Energy Commission; 4/2013. Available from: http://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=62826 Development Development Disturbance accounts for the level of impact by structures and settlements that are smaller than the MMU criteria for land use. Also includes hydrologic regime alteration. Menke, J., E. Reyes, A. Glass, D. Johnson and J. Reyes. 2013 California Vegetation Map in Support of the Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan. California Dept. of Fish and Wildlife, California Energy Commission; 4/2013. Available from: http://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=62826 AnthroAlteration Level of impact on vegetation through tillage, scraping, grazing, mining, etc. Menke, J., E. Reyes, A. Glass, D. Johnson and J. Reyes. 2013 California Vegetation Map in Support of the Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan. California Dept. of Fish and Wildlife, California Energy Commission; 4/2013. Available from: http://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=62826 AttributeBasis Assignment basis for the polygon: either RA identified by specific plot title, reconnaissance information, or aerial imagery. Internal MappingNote Additional information about the vegetation type, assignment process, landcover, or disturbance. Internal Shape_Length Length of feature in internal units. Esri Positive real numbers that are automatically generated. CACode California Natural Community Codes - unique code assigned to alliances and associations. https://www.wildlife.ca.gov/Data/VegCAMP/Natural-Communities CalVegName A crosswalk to the CalVeg vegetation system. Note that there may be a one-to-many relationship between CalVeg and NVCS. http://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/r5/landmanagement/resourcemanagement/?cid=stelprdb5347192 CalVegCode A crosswalk to the CalVeg vegetation system. Note that there may be a one-to-many relationship between CalVeg and NVCS. http://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/r5/landmanagement/resourcemanagement/?cid=stelprdb5347192 CWHRType A crosswalk to the California Wildlife Habitat Relationships system. Note that there is usually a one-to-many relationship between CWHR and NVCS. http://www.dfg.ca.gov/biogeodata/cwhr/ CWHRCode A crosswalk to the California Wildlife Habitat Relationships system. Note that there is usually a one-to-many relationship between CWHR and NVCS. http://www.dfg.ca.gov/biogeodata/cwhr/ NVCSGroup The standardized name for the group within the 2008 National Vegetation Classification System. The U.S. National Vegetation Classification System (http://www.usnvc.org) NVCSMG The standardized name for the macrogroup within the 2008 National Vegetation Classification System. The U.S. National Vegetation Classification System (http://www.usnvc.org) Shape_Area Area of feature in internal units squared. Esri Positive real numbers that are automatically generated. MapClassCode The code for a vegetation association, alliance, group, unvegetated type, or land use for polygons that are not natural vegetation. For this map, the codes were generated by VegCAMP staff from the alliance and association codes provided by UCR. https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=102342&inline GlobalRank The national rarity ranking of the plant community mapped (ranks are available for all California alliances, and some associations). Ranks are based on a set of criteria including the rarity of the community (extent and occupancy), the threats that the community is subject to, and any known trends in the quality, size, or quantity of stands. Ranks go from G1 which is critically imperiled/has very few occurrences to G5, when a community is demonstrably secure due to security globally. Ranks G1-G3 are considered rare. See: http://www.natureserve.org/sites/default/files/publications/files/natureserveconservationstatusmethodology_jun12_0.pdf NatureServe, https://www.natureserve.org/ StateRank The state rarity ranking of the plant community mapped (ranks are available for all California alliances, and some associations). Ranks are based on a set of criteria including the rarity of the community (extent and occupancy), the threats that the community is subject to, and any known trends in the quality, size, or quantity of stands within the state. Ranks go from S1 which is critically imperiled/has very few occurrences to S5, when a community is demonstrably secure due to security statewide. Ranks S1-S3 are considered rare. See: http://www.natureserve.org/sites/default/files/publications/files/natureserveconservationstatusmethodology_jun12_0.pdf NatureServe, https://www.natureserve.org/ Rare Rarity of the vegetation type. Alliances and associations with state ranks of S1-S3 are considered rare. https://www.wildlife.ca.gov/Data/VegCAMP/Natural-Communities/Background NVCSAlliance The standardized name for the alliance within the 2008 National Vegetation Classification System. The U.S. National Vegetation Classification System (http://www.usnvc.org) 20221215 University of California, Riverside Lynn Sweet Associate Research Specialist mailing and physical

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