PROPOSITION 1 GRANTS
The Water Quality, Supply, and Infrastructure Improvement Act of 2014 (Proposition 1) provides funding to implement the three broad objectives of the California Water Action Plan: more reliable water supplies; the restoration of important species and habitat; and a more resilient, sustainably managed water resources system (water supply, water quality, flood protection, and environment).
PROPOSITION 68 GRANTS
The California Drought, Water, Parks, Climate, Coastal Protection, And Outdoor Access For All Act Of 2018 (Proposition 68) provides funding for CDFW grants for projects that: 1) improve a community's ability to adapt to the unavoidable impacts of climate change; 2) improve and protect coastal and rural economies, agricultural viability, wildlife corridors, or habitat; and/or 3) develop future recreational opportunities, or enhance drought tolerance, landscape resilience, and water retention.
GREENHOUSE GAS REDUCTION FUND GRANTS
Greenhouse Gas Reduction Projects are funded under California's Cap and Trade Program's Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF). These projects include mountain meadow and Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta wetland restoration projects that will lead to reductions in greenhouse gases.
RESTORATION GRANTS PROGRAM
This program funds projects based on their suitability for each grant, not based on specific grant applications. It began in 2022 and accepts applications on an ongoing basis, giving out grants on a monthly cycle. As of 2023, the available grants are: Drought - Protecting Salmon, Addressing Climate Impacts, Wetlands and Mountain Meadow Restoration, Wildlife Corridors, Proposition 1, and Proposition 68.
FISHERIES RESTORATION GRANT PROGRAM GRANTS
The Fisheries Restoration Grant Program (FRGP) was established in 1981 in response to rapidly declining populations of wild salmon and steelhead trout and deteriorating fish habitat in California. This competitive grant program has invested millions of dollars to support projects from sediment reduction to watershed education throughout coastal California. Contributing partners include federal and local governments, tribes, water districts, fisheries organizations, watershed restoration groups, the California Conservation Corps, AmeriCorps, and private landowners. FRGP\u2019s database began in 1999 to capture and maintain data about habitat restoration projects in California benefiting anadromous fish. The FRGP specific data is managed by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) and funded by NOAA Fisheries and CDFW.
DATA OVERVIEW
This data set contains points provided by the grantees representing the approximate location of the projects approved by the California Department of Wildlife's Watershed Restoration Grants Branch for funding under these grants through 2025. In some cases, the points represent small, discrete sites, but in many they represent larger areas such as regions, watersheds, or stream reaches. In a few cases the points are a laboratory site in which research will be/has been conducted. An attempt has been made to assess the point extent, but this was done by CDFW personnel based on the grant title and description, not the grantee.
PROPOSITION 1 GRANTS
The Water Quality, Supply, and Infrastructure Improvement Act of 2014 (Proposition 1) provides funding to implement the three broad objectives of the California Water Action Plan: more reliable water supplies; the restoration of important species and habitat; and a more resilient, sustainably managed water resources system (water supply, water quality, flood protection, and environment).
PROPOSITION 68 GRANTS
The California Drought, Water, Parks, Climate, Coastal Protection, And Outdoor Access For All Act Of 2018 (Proposition 68) provides funding for CDFW grants for projects that: 1) improve a community's ability to adapt to the unavoidable impacts of climate change; 2) improve and protect coastal and rural economies, agricultural viability, wildlife corridors, or habitat; and/or 3) develop future recreational opportunities, or enhance drought tolerance, landscape resilience, and water retention.
GREENHOUSE GAS REDUCTION FUND GRANTS
Greenhouse Gas Reduction Projects are funded under California's Cap and Trade Program's Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF). These projects include mountain meadow and Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta wetland restoration projects that will lead to reductions in greenhouse gases.
RESTORATION GRANTS PROGRAM
This program funds projects based on their suitability for each grant, not based on specific grant applications. It began in 2022 and accepts applications on an ongoing basis, giving out grants on a monthly cycle. As of 2023, the available grants are: Drought - Protecting Salmon, Addressing Climate Impacts, Wetlands and Mountain Meadow Restoration, Wildlife Corridors, Proposition 1, and Proposition 68.
FISHERIES RESTORATION GRANT PROGRAM GRANTS
The Fisheries Restoration Grant Program (FRGP) was established in 1981 in response to rapidly declining populations of wild salmon and steelhead trout and deteriorating fish habitat in California. This competitive grant program has invested millions of dollars to support projects from sediment reduction to watershed education throughout coastal California. Contributing partners include federal and local governments, tribes, water districts, fisheries organizations, watershed restoration groups, the California Conservation Corps, AmeriCorps, and private landowners. FRGP\u2019s database began in 1999 to capture and maintain data about habitat restoration projects in California benefiting anadromous fish. The FRGP specific data is managed by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) and funded by NOAA Fisheries and CDFW.
DATA OVERVIEW
This data set contains points provided by the grantees representing the approximate location of the projects approved by the California Department of Wildlife's Watershed Restoration Grants Branch for funding under these grants through 2025. In some cases, the points represent small, discrete sites, but in many they represent larger areas such as regions, watersheds, or stream reaches. In a few cases the points are a laboratory site in which research will be/has been conducted. An attempt has been made to assess the point extent, but this was done by CDFW personnel based on the grant title and description, not the grantee.
CWHR Predicted Habitat Models represent areas of predicted suitable habitat for each species within its range. These models are built from the following principal inputs:
1) a statewide, best-available vegetation map (FVEG);
2) GIS data representing a species\u2019 range;
3) the CWHR database of habitat suitability values for over 700 terrestrial vertebrate species.
Habitat suitability ranks of Low (non-zero values less than 0.34), Medium (0.34-0.66), and High (greater than 0.66) are based on the maximum suitability value across the 3 species life requisites: reproduction, feeding, and cover. Note that previous versions of these Predicted Habitat Models used an average across the 3 life requisites in order to obtain an overall suitability score for each habitat type and stage class. Habitat suitability scores were developed based on habitat patch sizes greater than 40 acres in size and are best interpreted for habitat patches greater than 200 acres in size. The FVEG landcover dataset is an aggregation of multiple statewide landcover and regional vegetation mapping efforts, conducted at different points in time (approximately 1990 up to time of publishing) and at various resolutions, compiled by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CALFIRE). FVEG uses the most current and consistent data available for each region of the state. Decision rules were developed that controlled which layers were given priority in areas of overlap. Crosswalks were used to attribute the various data sources according to the CWHR habitat-type classification system. Attributing FVEG with CWHR habitat types allows for the extraction of areas with non-zero suitability values for each species within the bounds of its range, creating a series of maps of predicted suitable habitat which are species-specific. Because FVEG is an amalgam of disparate landcover assessment efforts across the state, the predictive power for determining suitable habitat will vary between species, and possibly even regionally for species which are widely distributed. While these maps represent CDFW\u2019s best estimate of the presence of suitable habitat for any given species in the CWHR system, these maps are also limited by several factors: 1) the accuracy and resolution of vegetation maps in a given region; 2) the dynamic nature of the landscape in which fire and other disturbance events alter conditions at a greater frequency than mapping efforts can track; 3) the currency of expert knowledge, particularly as species adapt to changing land and climate conditions and the shifting of other species\u2019 ranges; 4) the frequency of species-specific surveys across a representative sample of a species\u2019 entire range; 5) metapopulation dynamics, which describes the shifting of populations within their environment as result of numerous types of interactions and responses.
CWHR GIS data representing predicted suitable habitat should not be used to indicate the presence or absence of a particular species at any specific site. CWHR predicted habitat models are named according to the 4-character alpha-numeric CWHR ID assigned to each species (5 characters in the case of subspecies or other sub-taxa). There is also a \u201cCWHR Revision Tracking Table\u201d containing a record for each species, its CWHR ID, scientific name, common name, and range and habitat model data revision history. CWHR species range models, predicted habitat models, and GIS data of the statewide distribution of all CWHR habitat types, along with the CWHR revision tracking table, are available for download at https://www.wildlife.ca.gov/Data/CWHR.
CWHR Predicted Habitat Models represent areas of predicted suitable habitat for each species within its range. These models are built from the following principal inputs:
1) a statewide, best-available vegetation map (FVEG);
2) GIS data representing a species\u2019 range;
3) the CWHR database of habitat suitability values for over 700 terrestrial vertebrate species.
Habitat suitability ranks of Low (non-zero values less than 0.34), Medium (0.34-0.66), and High (greater than 0.66) are based on the maximum suitability value across the 3 species life requisites: reproduction, feeding, and cover. Note that previous versions of these Predicted Habitat Models used an average across the 3 life requisites in order to obtain an overall suitability score for each habitat type and stage class. Habitat suitability scores were developed based on habitat patch sizes greater than 40 acres in size and are best interpreted for habitat patches greater than 200 acres in size. The FVEG landcover dataset is an aggregation of multiple statewide landcover and regional vegetation mapping efforts, conducted at different points in time (approximately 1990 up to time of publishing) and at various resolutions, compiled by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CALFIRE). FVEG uses the most current and consistent data available for each region of the state. Decision rules were developed that controlled which layers were given priority in areas of overlap. Crosswalks were used to attribute the various data sources according to the CWHR habitat-type classification system. Attributing FVEG with CWHR habitat types allows for the extraction of areas with non-zero suitability values for each species within the bounds of its range, creating a series of maps of predicted suitable habitat which are species-specific. Because FVEG is an amalgam of disparate landcover assessment efforts across the state, the predictive power for determining suitable habitat will vary between species, and possibly even regionally for species which are widely distributed. While these maps represent CDFW\u2019s best estimate of the presence of suitable habitat for any given species in the CWHR system, these maps are also limited by several factors: 1) the accuracy and resolution of vegetation maps in a given region; 2) the dynamic nature of the landscape in which fire and other disturbance events alter conditions at a greater frequency than mapping efforts can track; 3) the currency of expert knowledge, particularly as species adapt to changing land and climate conditions and the shifting of other species\u2019 ranges; 4) the frequency of species-specific surveys across a representative sample of a species\u2019 entire range; 5) metapopulation dynamics, which describes the shifting of populations within their environment as result of numerous types of interactions and responses.
CWHR GIS data representing predicted suitable habitat should not be used to indicate the presence or absence of a particular species at any specific site. CWHR predicted habitat models are named according to the 4-character alpha-numeric CWHR ID assigned to each species (5 characters in the case of subspecies or other sub-taxa). There is also a \u201cCWHR Revision Tracking Table\u201d containing a record for each species, its CWHR ID, scientific name, common name, and range and habitat model data revision history. CWHR species range models, predicted habitat models, and GIS data of the statewide distribution of all CWHR habitat types, along with the CWHR revision tracking table, are available for download at https://www.wildlife.ca.gov/Data/CWHR.