Proposed Specialty Preserve Areas

Metadata:

• Identification_Information
• Data_Quality_Information
• Spatial_Data_Organization_Information
• Spatial_Reference_Information
• Entity_and_Attribute_Information
• Distribution_Information
• Metadata_Reference_Information

Identification_Information:

Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: Endangered Species Recovery Program

Publication_Date: 1999

Title: Proposed Specialty Preserve Areas

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Fresno, CA, US

Publisher: Endangered Species Recovery Program

Other_Citation_Details:

U.S. FWS, 1998 Recovery Plan for Upland Species of the San Joaquin Valley, California.

Online_Linkage: <http://arnica.csustan.edu/esrpp>

Description:

Abstract: Natural lands targeted for protection as specialty preserves.

Purpose:

To illustrate the general locations of lands targeted for specialty preserves listed in Table 8 of the SJV Recovery Plan.

Supplemental_Information:

Public and conservation lands should be adaptively managed to maximize their potential to support listed and sensitive species. Private lands should be protected through conservation or management agreements, acquisition, easements or other mechanisms, then adaptively managed. Management plans should be developed for all protected areas.

Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Single_Date/Time:

Calendar_Date: 1996

Currentness_Reference: ground condition

Status:

Progress: In work

Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: Irregular

Spatial_Domain:

Bounding_Coordinates:

West_Bounding_Coordinate: -121.837

East_Bounding_Coordinate: -118.324

North_Bounding_Coordinate: 38.6919

South_Bounding_Coordinate: 34.7831

Keywords:

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None

Theme_Keyword: Endangered Species

Theme_Keyword: Recovery Planning

Theme_Keyword: Conservation

Theme_Keyword: Specialty Preserves

Theme_Keyword: Native Plants

Place:

Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: None

Place_Keyword: United States

Place_Keyword: California

Place_Keyword: San Joaquin Valley

Place_Keyword: Kern County

Access_Constraints: none

Use_Constraints:

None. Acknowledgement of the Endangered Species Recovery Program would be appreciated in products derived from this data.

Point_of_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: Endangered Species Recovery Program

Contact_Position: GIS Analyst

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing

Address:

City: Fresno

State_or_Province: CA

Postal_Code:

Country: US

Contact_Voice_Telephone:

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 559 453 1227

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: gis@esrp.org

Contact_Instructions: Contact by electronic or postal mail

Browse_Graphic:

Browse_Graphic_File_Name: spec_pres.jpg

Browse_Graphic_File_Description: Graphic of theme spec_pres

Browse_Graphic_File_Type: JPEG

Data_Set_Credit:

Ellen A. Cypher Daniel F. Williams Patrick A. Kelly Nancy Norvell Scott E. Phillips

Data_Quality_Information:

Attribute_Accuracy:

Attribute_Accuracy_Report:

The attributes assigned were taken from Table 8. of the SJV Recovery plan and are assumed to be as accurate as the table in the plan.

Logical_Consistency_Report:

Arcs connect to each other at nodes. Arcs have direction and left and right sides. Arcs that connect to surround an area define a polygon.

Completeness_Report:

The locations of plant species featured in the SJV Recovery Plan were used to identify areas in need of preserves. Specialty preserves were also chosen to represent the range of ecological conditions under which each species occurred (e.g., latitude/longitude, elevation, plant community, soils).

Positional_Accuracy:

Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy:

Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report:

The data represents general geograpic locations and is not accurate to the parcel level.

Lineage:

Source_Information:

Source_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: Endangered Species Recovery Program

Publication_Date: 1996

Title: Threatened and Endangered Species Occurrences

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: map

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Fresno, CA, US

Publisher: Endangered Species Recovery Program

Other_Citation_Details:

Used data from: the California Natural Diversity Database, "Rare Plant Locations" produced by Dames and Moore for Kern County HCP, and maps of plant locations maintained by the Bakersfield, CA office of the Bureau of Land Management.

Online_Linkage: <http://arnica.csustan.edu/esrpp>

Type_of_Source_Media: paper

Source_Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Single_Date/Time:

Calendar_Date: 1996

Source_Currentness_Reference: ground condition

Source_Citation_Abbreviation: ESRPOCC

Source_Contribution:

Endangered species occurrence information from various sources was compiled to show geographic distributions of endangered and threatened plants.

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

The locations of recommended specialty preserves were identified by Ellen Cypher of ESRP with assistance from the following: Mary Ann Showers (Cordylanthus palmatus), Kern County Valley Floor HCP Botanical Worgroup consiting of Jan Knight, Sandra Morey, Gene Cooley, Rhonda Reed, Scott Wilson and Ellen Cypher (Kern County Plants), and the Specialty Preserve subcommittee of the San Joaquin Valley Biological Technical Committee. The locations of plant species featured in the SJV Recovery Plan were used to identify areas in need of preserves. Specialty preserves were also chosen to represent the range of ecological conditions under which each species occurred (e.g., latitude/longitude, elevation, plant community, soils).

Process_Date: 1996

Process_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: Endangered Species Recovery Program

Contact_Position: GIS Analyst

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing

Address:

City: Fresno

State_or_Province: CA

Postal_Code:

Country: US

Contact_Voice_Telephone:

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 559 453 1227

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: gis@esrp.org

Contact_Instructions: Contact by electronic or postal mail

Spatial_Data_Organization_Information:

Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Vector

Spatial_Reference_Information:

Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition:

Planar:

Grid_Coordinate_System:

Grid_Coordinate_System_Name: Universal Transverse Mercator

Universal_Transverse_Mercator:

UTM_Zone_Number: 10

Transverse_Mercator:

Scale_Factor_at_Central_Meridian: 0.9996

Longitude_of_Central_Meridian: -123

Latitude_of_Projection_Origin: 0

False_Easting: 500000

False_Northing: 0

Planar_Coordinate_Information:

Planar_Coordinate_Encoding_Method: Coordinate pair

Coordinate_Representation:

Abscissa_Resolution: 1

Ordinate_Resolution: 1

Planar_Distance_Units: meters

Geodetic_Model:

Horizontal_Datum_Name: North American Datum of 1927

Ellipsoid_Name: Clark 1866

Semi-major_Axis: 6378206.4

Denominator_of_Flattening_Ratio: 294.98

Entity_and_Attribute_Information:

Overview_Description:

Entity_and_Attribute_Overview:

The attributes are taken from Table 8. of the SJV recovery plan. The rows of data from the table were related to polygon locations.

Entity_and_Attribute_Detail_Citation: ESRP, 1999

Distribution_Information:

Distributor:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: Endangered Species Recovery Program

Contact_Position: GIS Analyst

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing

Address:

City: Fresno

State_or_Province: CA

Postal_Code:

Country: US

Contact_Voice_Telephone:

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 559 453 1227

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: gis@esrp.org

Contact_Instructions: Contact by electronic or postal mail

Resource_Description: Arc Export file of spec_pres

Distribution_Liability:

No warranty, expressed or implied is made by the ESRP regarding the utility of the data, nor shall the act of distribution constitute any such warranty. These data are geographic illustrations and do not represent legal boundaries.

Standard_Order_Process:

Digital_Form:

Digital_Transfer_Information:

Format_Name: ARCE

Format_Version_Number: 7.2.1

Format_Specification: no compression

Digital_Transfer_Option:

Online_Option:

Computer_Contact_Information:

Network_Address:

Network_Resource_Name: <http://www.esrp.org/gis/>

Access_Instructions:

Large files may be GNU Zip compressed. Tools for decompression can be obtained from URL: <http://www.gzip.org/>

Online_Computer_and_Operating_System: Generic PC with Linux i386 2.2.5

Fees: Data may be accessed online without charge.

Technical_Prerequisites: computer with software to import ARC/INFO GIS data

Metadata_Reference_Information:

Metadata_Date: 19990701

Metadata_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: Endangered Species Recovery Program

Contact_Position: GIS Analyst

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing

Address:

City: Fresno

State_or_Province: CA

Postal_Code:

Country: US

Contact_Voice_Telephone:

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 559 453 1227

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: gis@esrp.org

Contact_Instructions: Contact by electronic or postal mail

Metadata_Standard_Name: FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata

Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998

Metadata_Time_Convention: local time

Metadata_Access_Constraints: none

Metadata_Use_Constraints: none