Information Center for the Environment 20060701 vector digital data http://bios.dfg.ca.gov ftp://ftp.dfg.ca.gov/BDB/GIS/BIOS/Public_Datasets/400_499/ds422.zip The California Departments of Fish and Game, Parks and Recreation, and Transportation (Caltrans) are collaborating to improve planning information for wildlife connectivity statewide. The results of an inquiry to identify existing information on wildlife corridors in California produced eight data sets covering three parts of California and a single statewide data set. Not all data sets represent the same data gathering and analysis criteria for designating corridors. The data set groups and their creators are: Statewide Corridors, by South Coast Wildlands - one data set Central California Coast Corridors, by Univ. of California, Davis - one data set San Joaquin Valley Corridors, by Endangered Species Recovery Program - three data sets San Joaquin Valley Corridors, by Information Center for the Environment - two data sets Southern California Corridors, by South Coast Wildlands - one data set Patrick Huber at the Information Center for the Environment, University of California, Davis, identified potential conservation opportunity areas in the San Joaquin Valley. These polygons depict conservation opportunity areas that were derived for the California Partnership for the San Joaquin Valley. These areas feature concentrations of priority conservation targets as identified by a range of participants in this planning process. They are meant to help focus conservation efforts towards those locations that are most critical to the future ecological well-being of the region. This information will be combined in the Partnership process with additional transportation, urban growth, agriculture, and other topics that will need to be addressed over the coming decades in this region. The first step in the process of the dataset creation was to hold a series of meetings involving a wide range of natural resource planners representing federal, state, local, and private agencies and organizations. These attendees identified 14 key conservation priorities in the San Joaquin Valley. These are: - desert scrub - blue oak woodland - sensitive ecological communities - Grasslands Ecological Area - historic lakebeds - kit fox habitat - buffers around existing conservation areas - 100-year floodplain - riparian corridors - perennial grassland - Tehachapi corridor - high concentrations of sensitive species - vernal pool complexes in Stanislaus, Merced, Madera, and Fresno Counties - Tulare Basin planning areas These priorities were converted into GIS layers and overlaid to determine those locations of denser concentrations. Boundaries were drawn by visual inspection around the "hotspots" of conservation priorities and existing public/private conservation lands. To identify areas containing higher densities of conservation priorities in order to aid in the focus of conservation efforts. 20060701 publication date Complete None planned -121.588726 -118.620979 38.268697 34.930711 ISO 19115 Topic Category biota environment None California Partnership for the San Joaquin Valley conservation planning None California San Joaquin Valley None None Information Center for the Environment Patrick Huber Graduate Student Researcher unknown

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Davis CA 95616 530-752-1331 prhuber@ucdavis.edu Information Center for the Environment Microsoft Windows 7 Version 6.1 (Build 7601) Service Pack 1; Esri ArcGIS 10.3.1.4959 Edited original metadata by adding ISO keywords. 20080728 California Department of Fish and Game Greg Ewing bios@dfg.ca.gov Vector GT-polygon composed of chains 24 NAD 1983 California Teale Albers 34.0 40.5 -120.0 0.0 0.0 -4000000.0 coordinate pair 0.000000003754707655900803 0.000000003754707655900803 meter D North American 1983 GRS 1980 6378137.0 298.257222101 ds422 FID Internal feature number. ESRI Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated. Shape Feature geometry. ESRI Coordinates defining the features. Name Name of the conservation opportunity area. km_sq Area of each conservation opportunity area. COA Unique identification letter for each conservation opportunity area. Patrick Huber prhuber@ucdavis.edu See access and use constraints information. 20160302 Information Center for the Environment Patrick Huber mailing and physical

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