Links to Environmental Resources

General

• Environmental Framework Plan for the 12 County Bay/ Delta region; REGIS in the University of California's Center for Environmental Design Research (CEDR) - http://www.regis.berkeley.edu/baydelta.html
  
  
• Raising the Roof, California's Housing Development Projections and Constraints, 1997-2020; Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) - http://housing.hcd.ca.gov/hpd/hrc/rtr/index.html
  
  
• California Environmental Resources Evaluation System (CERES), California Resources Agency - http://ceres.ca.gov
  
  
• California Rivers Assessment Interactive Web Database - http://endeavor.des.ucdavis.edu/newcara/
  
  
• California Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) - http://www.calepa.ca.gov/
  
  
• US EPA, EnviroFacts - http://www.epa.gov/enviro/index_java.html
  
  
• Land Cover Data Directory, California Data Sets - http://www.epa.gov/owow/watershed/landcover/lulcca.html
  
  
• National SiteInfo Request http://www.epa.gov/region10/www/gisapps/natsite.html

Wildlife Habitat and Endangered Species

• California Gap Analysis Project; wildlife, plant species, land ownership patterns and designated areas managed for biodiversity conservation - http://www.biogeog.ucsb.edu/projects/gap/gap_data2.html
  
  
• Lists of threatened and endangered species, US Fish and Wildlife Service - http://endangered.fws.gov/wildlife.html#Species
  
  
• Wildlife and habitat data analysis branch, US Fish and Wildlife Service - http://maphost.dfg.ca.gov/wetlands/default.htm

Farmland

• California Department of Conservation, Division of Land Resource Protection - http://www.consrv.ca.gov/dlrp/FMMP/index.htm
  
  

• Farmland Mapping and Monitoring Program - ftp://ftp.consrv.ca.gov/Pub/Dlrp/FMMP/
  
  

• Natural Resources Conservation Service, US Department of Agriculture - http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/
  
  

• Farmland Conversion Report - http://www.consrv.ca.gov/dlrp/FMMP/mr&sd_fmmp.htm

Wetlands

• National Wetlands Inventory Center, Wetlands interactive mapping tool. Maps out the wetlands throughout the state at the county, city, zip code level, with additional layers of roads, railroads, etc. - http://ecos.fws.gov/nwi_mapplet/