Description: We developed a comprehensive layer of “conservation management status”for the study area, largely based on assigned conservation status from the California Protected Areas Database (CPAD, 2016b). We categorized lands into four classes of conservation management: Highly Conserved lands, Conserved lands, Non-conservation Public lands, and Non-Conservation Private lands (Table 2.3). However, we also augmented the CPAD data with additional data sources for other types of conservation lands:Wilderness areas: We used data from the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM https://www.blm.gov/ca/gis/) and other sources (http://www.wilderness.net/nwps/geography) and categorized all BLM Areas of Critical Environmental Concern and Wilderness areas as Highly Conserved; Conservation easements: We used data from the California Conservation Easement Database (http://www.calands.org/cced) and assigned conservation easements to the Highly Conserved category; andMilitary lands: We used data from the U.S. BLM Land Status data (v10; https://www.blm.gov/ca/gis/). Military installations with greater than 50% natural land cover were characterized as Conserved; installations with less than 50% natural land cover were characterized as non-conservation Public lands.
Copyright Text: The Nature Conservancy; California Protected Areas Database (CPAD - www.calands.org); Bureau of Land Management; Wilderness.net
Description: Coastal Analytic Units are hexagons of 1 square kilometer in size that are used to serve as standardized Analytic Units, facilitating summarization and comparison of disparate data and analytical results at multiple scales.