ESRI Conservation Program Resources:

California Agencies & Sources

(ECP and CTSP members, sites of interest for mapping/GIS, scholarly papers and ESRI Conference Proceedings, and sites with public conservation and GIS data for downloading) (Under Construction)

(Legend: CTSP sites are coded "c" plus the year of the grant, (cs=software, cm=mac), ECP grantees are coded "e". Many groups, especially newer grantees, do not yet have their own sites and are colored green. Other new groups may be described or supported by other sites)

California Conservation Corps Foundation, Sacramento CA cm97 .(690 W. Knox St. Ste. 240 Torrance, CA 90502 tel: 916-341-3177 fax: -324-3347 email:asque216@aol.com AND ) Fundraising arm of the Calif. Conservation Corps.

Calif Dept. of Fish and Game, Sacramento Ca e92 .(Information Services, Natural Diversity Data Base, California Department of Fish and Game, 1416 9th Street, Sacramento, CA 95814, Fax: (916) 324-0475) "Conserving California's Wildlife Since 1870" ...Geographic Information System (GIS) Divison...."California Department of Fish and Game Builds Agency-Wide GIS.:The continuing implementation of the Department of Fish and Game's GIS already allows many divisions to make better decisions. For example, reports Ellison, "Our Natural Heritage Division uses ArcInfo to manage a database of locations and status of rare and endangered plants, animals, and their habitats. The data is used to plan land acquisition and management. Federal, other state, and local government agencies, as well as California's business community, also make extensive use of this information for environmental impact reports for land development and land use planning." ...Habitat Conservation Division ..includes the GIS branch, Wildlife Habitat Relationships, and Conservation & Analysis groups. Wildlife and Habitat Data Analysis Branch: "The Branch provides and improves high quality scientific information and analysis needed by Department employees, and other public agencies and private organizations, for making wise and sound biological conservation decisions." Groups include the Conservation Analysis Unit responsible for: IBIS (Integrated Biological Information System), Significant Natural Areas Program, CA Wildlife Habitat Relationships Program, Gap Analysis Program (GAP) Info and Products, and the..The California Natural Diversity Data Base (NDDB), "a statewide inventory of the locations and condition of the state's rarest species and natural communities. The NDDB is a "heritage program" and is part of a nationwide network of similar programs." It is an ArcInfo GIS database with custom maps and species occurrences reports available to conservation groups at rates around $100/quad. ..Wildlife Management Division GIS Program:..The Wildlife Management Division's GIS program is currently staffed by Tom Lupo, Geographer tlupo@dfg.ca.gov and David Snider, scientific aide. The system was installed and became operational in the spring of 1994. The GIS program supports the Division's diverse activities in bird and mammal hunting regulation, bird and mammal conservation and the California Wildlife Habitat Relationships System (CWHR)...Sample Map Products : Northern Spotted Owl Sites <247065 bytes> Mountain Lion Habitat Suitability <205022 bytes> Deer Hunting Status On California Public Lands <146447 bytes> Deer Zones and Additional Hunts <183313 bytes> Hunting Status on Public Lands Within Bear Hunt Zone <146322 bytes> 1996 General Bear Season <98752 bytes> Wild Pig Harvest <113020 bytes> San Joaquin Valley Area <91251 bytes> Total Species Richness <150110 bytes> Harvest Species Richness <144135 bytes> Threatened and Endangered Species Richness <181827 bytes> Seasonal Birds Species Richness <127557 bytes> Human Population Density - 1990 Census <138592 bytes>

California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, Ca: . .Fire and Resource Assessment Program (FRAP) . (Fire and Resource Assessment Program, California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, 1920 20th Street, Sacramento, CA 95814. tel:(916) 227-2672 Fax:(916) 227-2651) The Fire and Resource Assessment Program (FRAP) is to provide CDF with the capacity to systematically and continuously examine, evaluate, and assess the goals of its fire protection, resource management, management services, and other operational programs. GIS Data Layers and Maps : includes Vegetation Data, Watershed Data, CDF Data/Maps, Disturbance Data, Weather Data. GIS & Analysis Projects cover Fire, Hardwoods, Forests, Watersheds, People & Landscapes.

California Native Plant Society, Ca e95 .(David Chipping (dchippin@rubens.artisan.calpoly.edu)) The California Native Plant Society (CNPS) is a statewide non-profit organization of amateurs and professionals with a common interest in California's native plants. The Society, working through its local chapters, seeks to increase understanding of California's native flora and to preserve this rich resource forfuture generations. Membership is open to all. Our members have diverse interests including natural history, botany, ecology, conservation, photography, drawing, hiking, and gardening....The new Plant Communities Program has prepared and standardized an updated classification of California's plant communities, resulting in a 1995 publication, A Manual of California Vegetation, using the CNPS Plant Communities Sampling Protocol . ...An Introduction to the Plant Communities of California...Photo Gallery -Highway 58 Revisited- Malcolm McLeod. Manual of California Vegetation Interactive Website .

California Teale Data Center, Ca . (P. O. BOX 13436, SACRAMENTO, CA 95813-4436 tel:(916) 263-1767 FAX (916) 263-1346 email:webmaster@gislab.teale.ca.gov) "The mission of the GIS Technology Center is to lead organizations toward the use of GIS as a fundamental technology for information management . The GIS Technology Center at Teale Data Center has built a reputation for expertise and excellence in developing and making GIS tools and data available for environmental, economic and social applications."

California Teale Data Center GIS Technology Center, Ca ; maintains a data library of over 35 types of geography. Library coverages are in ArcInfo format and are convertible to other file formats as required . All data are maintained in a common coordinate projection to enable overlay and integration functions. Four major data areas are ADMINISTRATIVE DIVISIONS, INFRASTRUCTURE, PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY, CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY.

The California Environmental Resources Evaluation System - CERES -(1416 Ninth St. Suite 1311, Sacramento, CA, 95814, tel:(916) 654-9990 Director: Gary Darling, Phone 916-653-4279 email mailto:gary@ceres.ca.gov) "is an information system developed by the California Resources Agency to facilitate access to a variety of electronic data describing California's rich and diverse environments. The goal of CERES is to improve environmental analysis and planning by integrating natural and cultural resource information from multiple contributors and by making it available and useful to a wide variety of users....The goal of the Watershed Information Technical System (WITS) is to provide the information and tools to support local watershed planning, restoration, monitoring, and education via the CERES Web...The Wetlands Information System is designed to provide comprehensive wetlands information to the general public, the educational community, and government agencies. It is a compilation of public and private sector information, including maps, environmental documents, agency roles in wetlands management, restoration and mitigation activities, regulatory permitting, and wetland policies....The goal of the Land Use Planning Information Network (LUPIN) is to formulate and implement an information service to support and address land use and planning via the CERES Web...The mission of the California Ocean Resources Management Program (CORM) is: To ensure comprehensive and coordinated management, conservation and enhancement of California's ocean resources for their intrinsic value and for the benefit of current and future generations. Explore California's Coastal Geography takes you on a virtual tour of the state's coast, from the California Coastal Commission's book "California Coastal Resource Guide".

California State University Stanislaus BIOWEB. Biology Web Links Database . The purpose of this server is to consolidate existing WWW Biological Science teaching and research resources and to create and distribute original multimedia resources for the teaching of biology.

California Trout, Ca . (870 Market Street Suite 859 San Francisco, CA 94102) "California Trout is a statewide organization of anglers and conservationists who believe the survival of wild trout is a matter of personal responsibility. For 25 years we have combined our efforts to battle loggers, dammers, ranchers, and bureaucrats. Though our successes are legendary, our ambitions remain huge. Every dime we receive goes to work to provide quality fishing for the public to enjoy." see California Trout Conservation Plan .

California Wilderness Coalition, Davis, CA c96 . (2655 Portage Bay East, Suite 5 Davis, California 95616, Phone: (530) 758-0380 Fax: (530) 758-0382, Paul Spitler, Executive Director, mailto:info@calwild.org) "Founded in 1976, the California Wilderness Coalition is a non-profit conservation organization composed of environmental groups, business sponsors, and individual members. We primarily work to protect the wildest and most pristine areas remaining in California." . CONSERVATION GIS: "CWC's GIS mapping program has focused on mapping core habitat and threatened corridors for mountain lions. By providing enough space and connectivity for the mountain lion, the reserve network will provide many benefits to other wildlife. ...Our office also serves as California's contact for The Wildlands Project (TWP). TWP is a plan for the restoration and preservation of native biodiversity through a continent-wide system of connected reserves, based on the principles of conservation biology.' Wildlands 2000 presents the maps and progress of the statewide wilderness inventory program. Don't miss their new Carnivore Habitat Suitability maps of Southern California, made by the South Coast wildlands project . Also check out PRESERVING CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTS: THE BIG SUR WILDLANDS PROJECT .

California League of Conservation Voters, Ca e97 . (1212 Broadway, Suite 630 Oakland, CA 94612 Phone: (510) 271-0900 FAX: (510) 271-0901 Gis contact: Sarah Rose, Political Director srose@ecovote.org) " The California League of Conservation Voters will use ArcView and GIS technology to better understand our membership. A geographic representation of our membership will allow us to provide better and more specific information about environmental issues in their local community. GIS Technology will also provide us the ability to represent to our members and to other environmental organizations who is the appropriate elected representative for areas with particular environmental issues, eg. air or water quality problems, environmental justice violations, proximity to pollutions sources, etc. " Don't Miss the Environmental Scorecard .

Conception Coast Project, Ca c98 . (32 West Anapamu Street, #331, Santa Barbara, CA, 93101 tel:(805) 687-2073 email:ccp@conceptioncoast.org ) "The Conception Coast region is a watershed-defined region of the South-Central Coast. The region serves as a geologic, topographic and climatic transition zone supporting a rich diversity of ecosystems. These ecosystems harbor approximately 1,400 native species, of which more than 140 are endemic to the region....The CCP Science Program is divided into two complementary efforts: 1) gathering and providing ecological information to the key players in the land use process, namely land trusts, environmental non-profit organizations, and eventually government agencies, and 2) developing a reserve design for the region via the Landscape Mosaic Evaluation Process (LMEP)....The LMEP is a methodology that integrates a range of scientific knowledge, digital and non-digital information, analytical techniques, and feedback from the community into a geographic information system (GIS) to provide a decision support reference for land-use planning. The LMEP will result in a variety in products, including maps of existing resources, a ranking of landscapes of priority for conservation, alternative landscape mosaics that would protect ecological integrity, and recommendations for a long term land preservation and management strategy. " .

Coyote Creek Riparian Station, Ca c98 . (closed, bird program moved to San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory)(P.O. Box 1027 Alviso, California U.S.A.) "CCRS has been working for over fifteen years to understand the processes that make riparian ecosystems and riparian habitats such valuable habitats. During the last five years we have heavily depended on GPS and GIS to 1. Collect and analyze the data, 2. Display our findings, and 3. Provide access to these data via the web, and provide the impetus to analyze creek and watershed issues on a regional basis. " The San Francisquito Creek watershed project data is now available at the San Francisco Estuary Institute Site .

Endangered Species Recovery Program, Fresno CA c95 . (Endangered Species Recovery Program, 1900 N. Gateway #101, Fresno, CA 93727, Tel: 559 453 1103, GIS Contact: Scott Phillips Email: sphillip@esrp.org ) The Endangered Species Recovery Program is a cooperative research program on biodiversity conservation in central California, administered by California State University, Stanislaus Foundation. Site includes vegetation map of the Project Area. and Free GIS coverages download area. "Since our CTSP GIS award, we have built the most comprehensive database of upland species in the San Joaquin Valley and other parts of Central California. Through cooperation with other organizations and agencies, we have been able to share data and build a base GIS system for use in regional planning of endangered species recovery. "

Environmental Protection Information Center, Ca e97. . (P.O. Box 397, Garberville, CA 95542, tel:(707) 923-2931 Fax:923-4210 email: epic@igc.org) "The Environmental Protection Information Center in Garberville, CA. has been working to protect biodiversity and ancient forests on the North Coast of California for over a decade. Our current focus is protecting Headwaters Forest, the largest unprotected ancient redwood forest in the world. " see their Activist Resources page . see the Intertribal Sinkyone Wilderness Council . and . Friends of Gilham Butte reports .

Forest Sentinels In Science, Inc, Mcloud CA c96 (Box 888-801 Oak St., McCloud CA tel: 916-964-3153, email: forsis@snowcrest.net ) .

Friends of Gilham Butte, Ca . Friends of Gilham Butte reports

Klamath Forest Alliance, Ca . (P.O. Box 820, Etna, Calif. 96029, (530) 467-5405, klamath@sisqtel.net ) "Klamath Forest Alliance (KFA), a non-profit organization, was formed in 1989 as a powerful local voice for the forest ecosystems and human communities of this area. KFA supports a small staff and a large network of volunteers on issues ranging from local to national in scope. "

Klamath GIS Project, Ca 95 . (Douglas Allen Dept. of Landscape Architecture 202 Wurster Hall University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 E-mail: allen@ced.berkeley.edu . Gis Contact: Phil Towle See also under Trinity Community GIS ) "This on-line catalogue provides information about GIS data sets that exist in the Klamath area. The catalogue was designed in a series of development workshops held around the Province with the input of over 150 Klamath based GIS users from agencies, businesses and non-governmental organizations."

Greenbelt Alliance, CA e93 c96 . (Main Office: 530 Bush Street, Suite 303, San Francisco CA 94108 PH: (415)398-3730 FAX: (415)398-6530 Exec. Director: Tom Steinbach. ) "Greenbelt Alliance is the leading land conservation organization in the nine county San Francisco Bay Area. Formed in 1958, our mission is to protect the 3.8 million acre Greenbelt of farmlands, watersheds, parks and other productive open space through citizen action, research and education, and advocacy. "...Don't miss their great collection of GIS Analyses Maps of At-Risk Lands .

Greeninfo Network, Ca: . ( GreenInfo Network, 116 New Montgomery Suite 640, San Francisco CA 94105, E-mail: ginfo@ix.netcom.com, PH: 415-979-0343, FAX: 415-543-1093, Larry Orman, Director) "We're here to help non-profits and public service organizations take advantage of the power of Geographic Information Systems -- computer based mapping. Established in 1996, our primary focus is California, although we also do limited work in other parts of the U.S." Begun as a project of the Greenbelt Alliance in 1995, Greeninfo Network currently manages the Conservation Technology Support Program, a joint ESRI-HP GIS grants program. Don't miss: What you can DO with GIS . What you need to use GIS . Data available to our associates . and Great GIS links .

Mattole Restoration Council, Ca e94 . (PO Box 160, Petrolia, CA 95558 tel:(707) 629-3509 email:mrc@inreach.com . GIS Contact: F. Jeremy Wheeler ) "In the fall of 1997 we at the Mattole Restoration Council (MRC) received a great boon to our work in the form of an ESRI Environmental Conservation Program (ECP) grant of PC ARC/INFO, ArcView 3.0a, Spatial Analyst 3.0 and two training courses in Redlands for our GIS technician. Thus began our GIS program, fulfilling a goal held by the MRC for over 5 years. In one short year our accomplishments with our GIS program have exceeded our greatest expectations. This work has become "absolutely indispensable," as put by one of our colleagues working towards the restoration and conservation of the Mattole Watershed. We have amassed an extensive collection of GIS data focused on the Mattole Watershed. We have developed maps that are integral parts of proposals and campaigns to protect critical forestlands from inappropriate logging. We have completed a GIS-based watershed analysis for our turbidity monitoring project. We have digitized our own old-growth forest layer. We have aided other local conservation groups such as the Mattole Salmon Group, and Sanctuary Forest, Inc. in their mapping needs. We have contributed data to a widely distributed CD ROM called KRIS COHO which is aimed at disseminating scientific information to the public regarding Pacific Lumber Company's Habitat Conservation Plan. The list of accomplishments goes on and on. In 1999 we are moving forward with our GIS program, including community GIS education, data development, and continued service to the restoration and conservation workers of the Mattole Valley. " see also The Mattole Restoration Council: Cooperation or Conflict? (by Freeman House ): "Controversy about timber harvest practices in the Mattole (and elsewhere in the Klamath Province) is old enough to buy a drink in California. Most of the arguments have centered on the California Forest Practices Act, a book of rules that has grown to formidable size as understanding of forest health has grown more sophisticated. Enforcing the rules adequately would require that the Departments of Forestry, Fish & Game, and Water Quality double and triple their current level of field staffing...The gap has been filled by a small army of volunteer citizen paralegals who spend their evenings wrestling with the Forest Practice Act in the hope of slowing down the disappearance of the forests and fisheries that contribute so much to their quality of life. This little army is often out-gunned by a smaller but much more well-compensated platoon of lawyers whose charge it is to keep things as they are....For the twelve or so years that the Mattole Restoration Council (MRC) has been monitoring THPs in the Mattole basin, it has done its share of letterwriting. But rather than pursuing litigation, the MRC has worked to attempt to solve the problems of interpretation while standing on the site under discussion‹with the landowner and the RPF, and where possible, with the neighbors who are most likely to be affected. With surprising regularity, we have found that when the arguments are refocused on how an actual stream crossing is to be designed or which trees are actually going to be cut, it is possible for many disputes to be resolved both in the context of landscape health and in the context of the landowner's economic needs.....By taking a cooperative and site-specific approach to a particular timber harvest plan, we began to learn to deal with the landscape on its own terms, rather than exclusively through the generic lens of science or centralized regulations. We didn't come up with a one-equation-fits-all answer to the question of how to codify the zero net sediment regulation. But we did witness a forest that had given up a sizable volume of building materials while maintaining its moist cool tree-growing soils along with the habitat structures that support its wildlife...."

Mendocino Environmental Center, Ca. . (106 W. Standley Ukiah, CA 95482 Phone: (707) 468-1660 Fax: (707) 462-2370 Contact person: Lynda McClure email: mailto:mec@pacific.net) "The Mendocino Environmental Center is a non-profit organization which began in March 1987 with the purpose of promoting the conservation, restoration and wise use of the Earth's natural resources and to provide a facility where the public can work together to achieve this purpose.

Natural Heritage Institute, Ca e97 . (114 Sansome Street, Suite 1200, San Francisco, CA 94104 Phone: (415)288-0550 Fax: (415)288-0555 Email: nhi@n-h-i.org Gis Contacts: David Purkey, John Cain) . "NHI is a non-profit natural resources law and consulting firm based in San Francisco, California. NHI works to foster conservation and sustainable use of the world's limited stock of natural resources by improving the laws that govern, and the institutions that manage them. NHI was founded in 1989 by a group of conservation lawyers and scientists who foresaw the need for a new toolkit for the next generation of environmental problem solving; an arena where the issues are technically more complex, the data less conclusive, the social objectives multi-variant, the economics more central, the ramifications more global, and the conventional tools less efficacious." For a good example of their current GIS work, see An Environmentally Optimal Alternative for the Bay-Delta (by John R. Cain, Aubrey L. Dugger, David K. Fullerton, David R. Purkey, David L. Sunding, Gregory A. Thomas): "This document showcases our use of GIS with innovative maps of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta produced with the assistance of the GreenInfo Network. GIS has been a crucial tool for analyzing and prioritizing environmental restoration opportunities for this project. To date, we are the only institution, governmental or non-governmental, that has developed a map for restoration in the Delta. Our report has gained wide publicity and is in high demand in both its printed form and as an electronic media (http://www.n-h-i.org/EOA/EOAindex.html)." Their future GIS projects include: . -Develop a restoration plan for the Sacrament-San Joaquin Delta; . -Restore the San Joaquin River below Friant Dam; . -Alpine meadow and wetland restoration in the Sierra Nevada; . -Implement a watershed science program for Marsh Creek, Contra Costa, California; . -Develop a water management plan for protection of the Okavango River Delta, Botswana, Africa; . -Analyze opportunities for simultaneously improving flood management, water supply, and restoring floodplain processes; . -Develop an indicator model for dryland ecosystems in Latin America." Don't Miss their MAP GALLERY . Don't Miss Human Rights and the Environment: "NHI works to formulate and advocate human rights protections for victims of environmental abuse, including those who are forced to live with the often severe health consequences of their governments' negligent environmental policies. NHI has promoted the development of international environmental standards for the protection of human health under which governments may be held accountable. Each year, we present to the United Nations and international conferences new documentation on cases involving communities throughout the world that are suffering from widespread degradation of their natural environment. "

North Coast Center for Biodiversity, Leggett, CA c95 (now known as Legacy, the Landscape Connection). "While debate about logging continues, MAP RAP attempts to influence the discussion by drafting a regional conservation plan. MAP RAP is the Multiple Affiliates Planning and Resource Analysis Program sponsored by North Coast Center for Biodiversity and Sustainability."

Northcoast Environmental Center, Ca c98 . (879 9th Street Arcata CA 95521 USA tel:(707) 822-6918 fax:(707) 822-0827 email:nec@igc.apc.org ) "The NEC is a non-profit environmental conservation organization located in Arcata, CA. Ever since the original Earth Day in 1970, the NEC has been educating, agitating, and litigating on behalf of the environment in northwestern California. It is the oldest and perhaps most influential coalition working on behalf of our bioregion to educate and empower citizens to be a voice in the decision-making process. "

Oasis Preserve International, Ca e98 . (517 Ocean Front Walk Suite 11A, Venice, California 90291 tel:(310)392-6600 FAX:(310) 392-6029 GIS Contact: Brian Machovina, brianmac@oasispi.org) . "Oasis Preserve International is a non-profit organization through which people can act globally to safeguard ecosystems that support their lives. Oasis establishes nature reserves and conservation programs in locations that are critical to the survival of life on Earth. Oasis' initial emphasis is on Latin American tropical forests that are among the world's last vast tracts of wilderness. " Don't Miss their Permaculture section . GIS STATUS: " In Costa Rica, our forester is now surveying land use and plans for reforestation which I am incorporating into mapping and management programs. In Peru, we are developing plans for establishing one of the largest private nature reserves in Latin America. We are now begining to map out the watershed where it will be set up and may even develop an atlas for the entire state in which it is located. We recently did a flyover of the region to ground truth satellite image data that we received from Mobil, of all places. " . Nice clickable projects map . SEARCH .

The Redwood Community Action Agency (RCAA), Ca e99 . (904 G Street, Eureka, CA 95501 USA tel:707) 269-2061 (Jeff Bue) or 269-2063 (Don Allan) fax:(707) 445-0884 email:nrs@rcaa.org ) "A private, non-profit organization [501(c)(3)] that has been providing a wide range of services to low and moderate income residents of Humboldt County for over 15 years. The Agency serves as an "umbrella" for several divisions, including Natural Resources Services (NRS). RCAA's mission is to develop programs through which community members can become self-sufficient and empowered to improve their own lives....Having successfully developed and implemented hundreds of natural resource restoration and enhancement projects, NRS has identified an increasing need for a GIS to improve overall program effectiveness....One current NRS program that would greatly benefit from GIS technology is the Watershed Information Network (WIN). Now in its second year, WIN provides a forum for restoration groups to meet regularly and discuss restoration priorities, strategies, and funding opportunities... GIS will serve as an important tool for this program by providing maps and data bases to facilitate discussions regarding locations of refugia, existing restoration projects, presence and absence of watershed data, and prioritization of future projects. "

Sacramento Tree Foundation, CA c96. . (201 Lathrop Way, Suite F., Sacramento CA 95815, tel:916.641.6122 fax:916.924.3803 email:riparian@earthlink.net GIS Contact: Bruce Handley) "The Sacramento Tree Foundation is a community group dedicated to improving the neighborhoods in which we live, work and play by inspiring people to plant and care for a healthy urban forest" (old site address ) .

Salmon Forever, Ca . (1658 Ocean Drive (Fedex Address) P.O. Box 3014 (Mailing Address) McKinleyville, CA 95519 tel:707.839.7444 fax:707.839.7447 Gis contact: Mr. Jesse Noell email: salmonid@igc.org ) "Salmon Forever is a 501(c)3 organization dedicated to encouraging enlightened public debate on issues related to forests, watersheds, and the protection of the beneficial uses of water. This project is a coordinated effort with local universities and community watershed councils to provide information on past and present watershed conditions in a form that allows the spatial relationships to be easily visualized. "

San Gregorio Environmental Resource Center, Ca . (Corner of Stage Road and Highway 84, 7615 Stage Road, Box 49, San Gregorio, California 94074 GIS Contact: Chris Larson tel:650-726-2499 fax:650-726-2686 email:chc@sanmateo.org or email:cdl10@cornell.edu ) "We are coastside and bayside residents who want to see the beautiful coastline, natural habitat, and native species between Half Moon Bay and Santa Cruz preserved and protected...We do this through advocacy, science, monitoring, and education... Some of the projects we are actively engaged in include stream-monitoring, education, and the annual Coastal Protection Concert....We have produced maps using conventional cartographic techniques, including hand drawn maps detailing monitoring sites, manually drawn digital maps, locations of endangered species occurrences, and a map of our local watersheds. "

Sierra Club San Gorgonio Chapter, Ca c95. (PO Box 55127, Riverside, CA, 92507-5127, tel:(909) 684-6203 email: mailto:Palmpine@aol.com) "Serving Inland Southern California (San Bernardino and Riverside Counties), The San Gorgonio Chapter gets its membership from the deserts, to the mountains to the shores of the Salton Sea as well as the vineyards of the Temecula Valley and the metropolitan areas of the two counties."

Sonoma Ecology Center, Sonoma, CA e94. (205 First Street West, Sonoma, CA 95476, tel:(707) 996-9744 email:sec@vom.com GIS Contact: Mike Bobbitt, Project Director, 996-0712, mikebobbitt@compuserve.com ) "The GIS Project Mission: With all the information in the world how do we sort through it and make our lives simpler rather than more complicated? The Sonoma Valley GIS Project uses a new technology called Geographic Information System to combine many kinds of information about our world and to display it in a simple map form. "

Spirit of the Sage Council, Ca . (30 N. Raymond Avenue, Suite 302, Pasadena, CA 91103 Voice (626) 744-9932 Fax (626) 744-9931 mailto:leeona@earthlink.net) . "We are an all volunteer grassroots non-profit 501 ( c )3 tax-exempt project and coalition of American Indians, environmental organizations, citizens action groups, scientists, legal experts and wildlife advocates dedicated to the protection and conservation of America's natural and cultural resources."

Trinity Bioregion GIS Project, Ca . (see under Trinity Community GIS)

The Trinity Community GIS Project, Ca e95. (Box 1784, Hayfork, CA, 96041-1784 or Watershed Center, Frontier Village, Hwy. 3, tel530/628-4200 fax: 530/628-5100 email:klamgis@cris.com GIS contact: Dr. Yvonne Everett) "We are a non-profit organization dedicated to providing the communities of the Trinity Bioregion of Northern California with access to local natural resources based information and training in Geographic Information Systems (GIS); Global Positioning Systems (GPS), Data Base Management (DBMS) and InterNet use. "Don't miss the free data downloads at the online Trinity Community GIS Library . The Trinity Bioregion GIS project presents information generated from a graduate-student GIS project conducted by five students in Professor John Radke's GIS for Environmental Planners course at UC Berkeley.

UC Davis ICE House List California Programs for Biodiversity Conservation, Ca . : Good page of conervation links, some not found anywhere else.

University of California, Santa Cruz GIS Laboratory, e91 . ...Geographic Information System facilities are gradually developing on the UCSC campus. In 1993, the Environmental Studies Board established a GIS Laboratory at College 8. ...The Laboratory also serves as a regional resource through data and technology exchanges with agencies such as NASA, California Coastal Commission, NOAA, USFS, and local government associations.

The Mojave Desert Ecosystem Initiative (MDEI), Ca . (email: mailto:jessen@edcdgs9.cr.usgs.gov) "MEDI was initiated to develop scientifically based data layers in an ecosystem wide Geographic Information System (GIS). To overcome institutional barriers and ensure the widest access and use of the data, the system is being made available over the internet. Dept. of Defense MDEI objectives are to "develop and maintain GIS-based infrastructure that: (1) connects environmental databases residing at five military installations situated within the Mojave Desert Ecosystem (about 44,280 square miles), (2) with those residing at various DOI and other agencies that are responsible for non-DOD Federal lands within the region, as well as (3) with those residing within regionally associated State, county, and local government agencies, academic intitutions, and private organizations." Data and Internet Links provides data downloads for the mojave.

US Bureau of Reclamation Non-Federal geospatial information sources : California geospatial information sources .CA Environmental Resources Evaluation System (CERES) .CA Teale Data Center GIS Technology Center. CA Geographic Information Association (CGIA) clearinghouse .San Francisco State University Multidisciplinary GIS Center .REGIS: Environmental Planning GIS at UC Berkeley .CA State Lands Commission GIS data layer index .CA Rivers Assessment (CARA) .UC Berkeley's California Environmental Digital Library Project .UC Berkeley's Earth Sciences and Map Library .Klamath GIS Project .

(Legend: ESRI User Conference Papers list the title, then in parentheses "paper" or "abstract" plus the year. Other web-located papers list title, author if known, and excerpt.)

The California Biodiversity Project: Linking a GIS Model with the Planning Process (1996 ESRI Conf. Paper, Bruce Goldstein)...The California Biodiversity Project (CBP) is an effort to help participants in county land-use planning understand the implications of changing land-use and development trends on regional biological diversity....At the center of our project is a GIS-based model, combining the results of a socioeconomic sub-model that allocates population growth within a county (at 1-year time steps up to a forty year duration) with another sub-model that calculates the relative value of biodiversity on a given grid cell by combining vegetative classification, landscape location, special status (i.e. endangered or threatened), and the habitat requirements of a select number of representative species...

The California Biodiversity Project: Selection and Use of Biodiversity Indicators (1996 ESRI Conf. Paper, Christopher B. Cogan)...In the search for methods to better understand ecosystem phenomena and dynamics, several researchers have sought to identify a series of indicators which can be used to measure ecosystem health...This paper discusses an approach which combines several of the above measures, and presents a model designed to predict future biodiversity conflicts, enabling this information to become part of the process of land planning and management. These methods are intended to represent biodiversity at the ecoregional scale, while functionally operating at the county level where many planning decisions take place.

Conservation and Recovery Planning in the San Joaquin Valley (1995 Absract, Patrick A. Kelly, Nancy Norvell) ...That cooperation has come about through the establishment of the San Joaquin Valley Endangered Species Recovery Planning Program which is administered by California State University, Stanislaus Foundation. This paper will present an overview of the program and how GIS is enabling us to reach our goals.

Hydrologic and Hydrographic Database Design in Support of Anadromous Fisheries Restoration Planning (in the Klamath River Basin) (ESRI 96 conf Paper by Robert E. Beachler ) "The purpose of this paper is to describe existing and potential applications of GIS in support of anadromous fisheries restoration planning. This paper discusses the issues associated with the compilation and development of regional watershed data sets, data availability and integration. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, EPA River Reach Files, version 3 (RF3) data sets are serving as the baseline hydrology layer and have been used to reference past fishery restoration projects and proposed projects seeking funding. A variety of planning areas and scales requires different levels of evaluation for hydrologic sub-basin planning units and watershed boundary delineation. To help prioritize fishery restoration planning efforts it is important to assess what types of projects have been funded in the past, their locations and to document the success or failure of these projects. Identifying the locations of the different types of restoration projects assists decision makers in evaluating the potential of effectiveness of future projects."

Virtual GIS and Ecosystem Assessment in the Klamath Province, California-Oregon by Steven A. Carlson, Lawrence Fox, III, Ronald L. Garrett, 1994 GIS/LIS Proceedings 1994 (Steven A. Carlson, Department of Natural Resources Planning and Interpretation, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA 95521-8299 carlsons@axe.humboldt.edu) "The Klamath Basin Virtual GI S Data Facility ("GIS Facility") has been established at Humboldt State University in support ofthe Klamath Basin Ecosystem Restoration Office's (ERO) mission of holistic resource management for the Klamath hydrobasin proper (FEMAT's "Klamath Province")....The ERO mission requires integrated, co-registered, and seamless GIS data layers covering political and administrative boundaries; lithospheric, hydrographic and atmospheric elements; plant and animal community characteristics, socioeconomic components, and descriptive landscape statistics including temporal dimensions."

California Environmental Resources Evaluation System Maps and Spatial Data . Online basemaps and environmental map sources, most free, are collected here from around the state.

California State Lands Commission Online GIS Data . CSLC has jurisdiction over all submerged lands underlying the state's navigable and tidal waterways, from the mean high tide line to three nautical miles offshore. These lands are equal in size to Connecticut and Delaware combined, and are managed for public purposes consistent with provisions of the Public Trust Doctorine such as fishing, water dependent commerce and navigation, ecological preservation and scientific study.

KLAMATH GIS PROJECT . The Klamath Meta Data Dictionary (KMDD): This on-line catalogue provides information about GIS data sets that exist in the Klamath area. The catalogue was designed in a series of development workshops held around the Province with the input of over 150 Klamath based GIS users from agencies, businesses and non-governmental organizations.

USGS San Francisco Bay Area Regional Database (BARD) .(Program Manager: Len Gaydos (lgaydos@usgs.gov) ) . "BARD's goal is to make it convenient for you to acquire USGS Digital Data for the San Francisco Bay Area. Enter our Digital Map Libary to obtain data. Learn about the four different data types we have available by clicking on the sample images. Also included are technical destriptions of DEM, DOQ, DLG and DRG files."

USGS San Francisco Bay Area Regional Database (BARD) 30m DEM . The DEMs listed here are in standard USGS format, 30 meter DEMs at a scale of 1:24,000. You are free to download this data. Each DEM is just over 1 megabyte in size.

USGS San Francisco Bay Area Regional Database (BARD) Digital Orthophoto Quads . Below are Digital Orthophoto Quads (DOQs), provided by the US Geological Survey in compressed form using JPEG compression.

UC Santa Cruz Data Library download files for research purposes only ( Contact: mailto:jdeck@cats.ucsc.edu)

All text by the respective organizations/authors, January 2, 1997

Web layout & design: Charles Convis, ESRI, January 2, 1996