Special Forest Habitats: Santa Cruz County, California, 2015

Description:

This polygon shapefile depicts special forest habitats in the County of Santa Cruz, California as defined in General Plan adopted May 24, 1994. special forest areas are unique natural communities, limited in supply and distribution, threatened by substantial disturbance from human activities and which provide habitat for rare, endangered and/or locally unique species of plants and animals. Examples of Special Forests include San Andreas Live Oak Woodlands, Valley Oak, Santa Cruz Cypress, indigenous Ponderosa and Monterey Pine, and ancient forests. This layer is part of a collection of GIS data created for Santa Cruz County, California. The Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Unit falls under the purview of the County of Santa Cruz Information Services Department. The GIS Unit serves all County departments and external customers and provides data on land, features and people of Santa Cruz County. Santa Cruz County encompasses 4 cities and approximately 265,000 people. This coverage can be used for basic applications such as viewing, querying and map output production, or to provide a basemap to support graphical overlays and analyses of geospatial data. County of Santa Cruz Information Services Department. (2015). Special Forest Habitats: Santa Cruz County, California, 2015. Santa Cruz County, California. Available at http://purl.stanford.edu/tc873xf7177. GIS Layer Number = 74/Original Mapping Source: County Biotic Resource Maps, Natural Diversity Database Map Used to Convert to GIS: Source maps. Source maps boundaries were traced or transferred to USGS 7.5 minute quadrangle sheets. Boundaries were then digitized using known control points or intersections of roads for reference. For some sheets, as few as two known control points were available. The boundaries were plotted and reviewed by the County's Advanced Planning staff.

County of Santa Cruz Planning Department General Plan (adopted May 24, 1994): http://www.sccoplanning.com/PlanningHome/SustainabilityPlanning/GeneralPlan.aspx These data were compiled from many different sources; therefore, the accuracy of the individual layers varies significantly, and some layers do not align exactly with others. In the urban areas, data are generally accurate within five to ten feet of their true geographic coordinates, but in the rural areas, data may be accurate to only within three hundred feet. With these limitations, the County of Santa Cruz disclaims any responsibility for the accuracy or correctness of this data. This disclaimer is exclusive and in lieu of any warranties, fitness for particular purpose, and/or any other type of warranty, whether expressed or implied. This layer is presented in the WGS84 coordinate system for web display purposes. Downloadable data are provided in native coordinate system or projection.

Resource Link:

https://purl.stanford.edu/tc873xf7177

Identifier:

https://purl.stanford.edu/tc873xf7177

Language:

English

Creator:

Garcia, Paul and Price, Matt

Publisher:

County of Santa Cruz Information Services Department

Provider:

Stanford

Resource Class:

Datasets

Subject:

Biotic communities, Habitat conservation, Forest biodiversity conservation, Vegetation mapping, Biology and Ecology, Boundaries, and Environment

Temporal Coverage:

2015

Date Issued:

2015

Spatial Coverage:

Santa Cruz County (Calif.)

Access Rights:

Public

Format:

Shapefile