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    California Protected Areas Database

    Metadata Updated: July 23, 2025

    The California Protected Areas Database (CPAD) is a GIS database of lands that are owned in fee and protected for open space purposes by over 1,000 public agencies or non-profit organizations. It is the authoritative GIS database of parks and open space in California.

    CPAD is maintained and published by GreenInfo Network (www.greeninfo.org). GreenInfo Network publishes CPAD twice annually.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. Non-Federal: This dataset is covered by different Terms of Use than Data.gov. License: See this page for license information.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date July 23, 2021
    Metadata Updated Date July 23, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from State of California

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date July 23, 2021
    Metadata Updated Date July 23, 2025
    Publisher California Natural Resources Agency
    Maintainer
    Identifier 1c152048-4c29-4a85-9507-804990eaa609
    Data First Published 2019-11-14T19:46:31.913426
    Data Last Modified 2025-06-27T14:35:14.281370
    Category Natural Resources
    Public Access Level public
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id 8d01c4e9-f5b1-475b-883b-510fcc5a7b1b
    Harvest Source Id 3ba8a0c1-5dc2-4897-940f-81922d3cf8bc
    Harvest Source Title State of California
    License http://www.opendefinition.org/licenses/cc-by
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 24f45f6ef75de345e1f758d4aa2fae040ddd29f719e6128fa5a639f88d9ad028
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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