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Vegetation - Gaviota Coast Dangermond Preserve [ds2957]

Metadata Updated: August 23, 2025

WRA, Inc (WRA) created a fine-scale vegetation map of portions of the Cojo-Jalama Ranches. WRA conducted field reconnaissance assistance for this project, as well as accuracy assessment (AA) field data collection. The primary purpose of the project was to provide a comprehensive overview of habitats, plants, and wildlife to inform planning for land-use, conservation, and ranch-specific activities.The mapping study area, consists of approximately 24,400 acres of the Cojo-Jalama ranches in unicoporated coastal Santa Barbara County, California. Work was performed on the project between 2012 and 2017. Ranch-wide floristic surveying was conducted from April 2012 to October 2014 to address natural communities and sensitive plant and wildlife species. WRA botanists documented vegetation alliances while on-foot. Site-specific surveys were conducted between 2015 and 2017 collected natural community and sensitive species data to be incorporated into WRA’s long-term geodatabase as supplementary data. WRA botanists then further refined vegetation alliance mapping by conducting accuracy assessment where site-specific surveys were conducted; when terrain made sites inaccessible, field botanists used binoculars to observe plant communities from an appropriate vantage point.Field maps generated by WRA used high-quality aerial photographs from 2010 to 2012 overlain with 10-foot contour lines. vegetation polygons were then hand-drawn by field biologists and later digitized using ArcGIS software. Trimble Geo XH GPS units with sub-meter accuracy were used by the biologists to map especially small-scale landscape features and rare plant point-occurrences. The minimum mapping unit (MMU) is variable from 1.0 acres to point depending on the map feature type. There was a total of 50 mapping classes. The overall Fuzzy Accuracy Assessment rating for the final vegetation map was not calculated, but much of the map was field checked.

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

Metadata Source

Harvested from State of California

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date July 23, 2025
Metadata Updated Date August 23, 2025
Publisher California Department of Fish and Wildlife
Maintainer
Identifier 98e4f5b0-8881-4a83-a665-05ee991a7887
Data First Published 2023-08-31T16:29:46.000Z
Data Last Modified 2025-07-24T20:23:45.951Z
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 75cf2d93-0c8e-4cd4-a66a-60623b5ebd5e
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 9bef6d7c296542e076bdbcbb94e8f9efe57ec8c4c681564d08dd038542f6b63a
Source Schema Version 1.1

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