U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service August 6, 2003 vector digital data Sacramento, California USA vernal_poolhttp://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/tsip/gis/datalibrary/gisdatalibrary.html These data identify, in general, the areas where final critical habitat for 15 Western vernal pool species occur. To provide the user with a general idea of areas where final critical habitat for 15 Western vernal pool species occur. Only the polygons which have a value of "Yes" in the "CRIT_HABITAT" field are critical habitat. Some military and public lands were excluded from the habitat survey. This coverage will not exactly match the maps, acreage tables, and legal descriptions published in the August 6, 2003 Federal Register. This is because changes were made in the critical habitat shortly before publication of the Federal Register, and there was insufficient time to incorporate those changes in the published document; the changes have been incorporated into this GIS layer. Please refer to the August 6, 2003 Federal Register for a description of the changes which were made. This office plans to publish an updated Federal Register next year. The 15 vernal pool species listed in this coverage are: Butte County meadowfoam (Limnanthes floccosa ssp. californica), Colusa grass (Neostapfia colusana), Conservancy fairy shrimp (Branchinecta conservatio), Contra Costa goldfields (Lasthenia conjugens), fleshy owl's-clover (Castilleja campestris ssp. succulenta) (this species was referred to as succulent owl's-clover in the vernal pool proposed critical habitat), Greene's tuctoria (Tuctoria greenei), hairy orcutt grass (Orcuttia pilosa), Hoover's spurge (Chamaesyce hooveri), longhorn fairy shrimp (Branchinecta longiantenna), Sacramento Orcutt grass (Orcuttia viscida), San Joaquin Valley Orcutt grass (Orcuttia inaequalis), slender Orcutt grass (Orcuttia tenuis), Solano grass (Tuctoria mucronata), vernal pool fairy shrimp (Branchinecta lynchi), and vernal pool tadpole shrimp (Lepidurus packardi). en August 6, 2003 publication date Complete None planned -123.709837 -118.994859 42.549483 34.584497 -123.709837-118.99485934.58449742.549483 critical habitat vernal pool U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service wetlandnonepolygon CACaliforniaOregonORU.S. FWS Pacific Region None These data are intended to be used as a guide to identify the general areas where final critical habitat for 15 vernal pool species occur. Specific identity of critical habitat should be obtained from the text of the designation of final critical habitat for these 15 vernal pool species published in: Federal Register, August 6, 2003, vol. 68, no. 151, pages 46683-46867. Linda Roberts U.S. Fish Wildlife Service GIS Branch Chief 916/414-6708 916/414-6713 linda_roberts@fws.gov 7:30 am to 4:30 pm email or telephone mailing and physical address

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SacramentoCalifornia95825-1846USA U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Pacific Region Microsoft Windows 2000 Version 5.0 (Build 2195) Service Pack 4; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.1.0.722 Shapefile To create the vernal pool proposed critical habitat, we (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologists) identified the critical habitat areas by using many spatial data layers derived from a variety of Federal, State, and local agencies, and from private organizations and individuals. We identified the general vernal pool areas on which to focus our critical habitat designations based on discussions with local species experts and information in our files. To identify where vernal pool species and habitats occur, we evaluated GIS data of vernal pool habitats by Holland (1998 and 2002), and species occurrences information from the 2001 California Natural Diversity Database (CNDDB 2001), University of California Riverside species database (UCR 2000), USFWS species occurrence database 2002, and unpublished species occurrence data in our files. We superimposed the vernal pool habitats with the species occurrence data over satellite images (Systeme Probatoire, d'Observation de la Terre [SPOT imagery], CNES/SPOT Image Corporation 1993-2000), and over 1-meter digital ortho-rectified photography in southern California (Emerge Corporation 2001). The use of SPOT imagery allowed us to identify landmarks such as roads, cities, rivers, and urban areas. Because of limitations of the Holland data and SPOT imagery on accurately identifying the extent of the vernal pool areas, we were required to refine the area boundaries based on additional GIS data layers. When necessary and available we used data which included soils information from the Soil Survey Geographic (SSURGO) databases (U.S. Department of Agriculture [USDA] 1998-2001), and the California State Soil Geographic (STATSGO) databases (USDA 1994). We used geologic and landform information developed by the California Department of Mines and Geology (CDMG, 2000) and Liss (2001). To identify the extent of flat or gently sloping topography where vernal pools are found we evaluated Digital Elevation Models from the U.S. Geologic Survey (2000). We also used a number of local GIS data sets for specific areas, including information developed through the Riverside Multiple Species HCP, Riverside County Flood Control (2002), and the Vernal Pools of Southern California Final Recovery Plan (Service 1998), habitat mapping for Butte County (EPA 1994), Tehama County (2001), Shasta County (2001), Placer County (Glazner 2001), Solano County (2000), Yolo County (1995), Sacramento County (1999), and San Joaquin County (2000) in California, and by the Rogue Valley Council of Governments in Oregon (Evans 2000). Other smaller scale mapping efforts were reviewed from Solano County Farmlands and Open Space (2000) and East Bay Regional Parks District (2001). The specific layers used and the methodology employed for each unit is described within the unit descriptions which are published in the Federal Register. We saved the critical habitat boundaries to shapefile, snapped the boundary lines to the vertices of an overlaid 100-meter grid to provide more usable legal description coordinates, and converted the shapefile to a coverage. In determining the critical habitat areas for the final rule we refined the mapping of the areas known to have vernal pools and the vernal pool species occurrences. We removed any areas which could be determined to not be habitat such as buildings, roads, canals, cultivated lands, housing developments and any other land areas not containing habitat or part of the watershed of the vernal pools. In addition, military lands at Travis AFB, Beale AFB, Camp Roberts Army Base, and Fort Hunter Liggett Army Base were removed. We excluded the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service owned lands within the boundaries of the Pixley, Sacramento, San Francisco Bay, San Joaquin River, and San Luis National Wildlife Refuges and National Wildlife Refuge Complexes and the Coleman National Fish Hatchery. We also excluded California Department of Fish and Game owned lands within the Battle Creek, Big Sandy, Grizzly Island, Hill Slough, North Grasslands, and Oroville Wildlife Areas and State-owned lands within Allensworth, Boggs Lake, Butte Creek Canyon, Calhoun Cut, Carrizo Plains, Dales Lake, Fagan Marsh, Phoenix Field, San Joaquin River, Stone Corral, and Thomes Creek Ecological Reserves. We also excluded four areas with Habitat Conservation Plans (HCPs), draft HCPs, Tribal lands, and on ecological preserve. These areas include the Assessment District 161 Subregional HCP (AD161 HCP) and the Draft Western Riverside HCP in Riverside County, the San Joaquin Multi-Species Conservation Plan in San Joaquin County, Mechoopda Tribal lands in Butte County, and the Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Reserve in Riverside County. Based on economic reasons, five counties were removed from the designation. Those counties are Butte, Madera, Merced, Sacramento, and Solano counties. 916/414-6600916/414-67137:30 am - 4:30 pmArnold RoesslerEndangered Species Division, U.S. Fish & Wildlife ServiceFish & Wildlife Biologistmailing and physical address

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SacramentoCalifornia95825-1846USA N/AVernal_pools is complete as of August 2003. Data were excluded from military lands at Travis AFB, Beale AFB, Camp Roberts Army Base, and Fort Hunter Liggett Army Base; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service owned lands within the boundaries of the Pixley, Sacramento, San Francisco Bay, San Joaquin River, and San Luis National Wildlife Refuges and National Wildlife Refuge Complexes and the Coleman National Fish Hatchery; and California Department of Fish and Game owned lands within the Battle Creek, Big Sandy, Grizzly Island, Hill Slough, North Grasslands, and Oroville Wildlife Areas and State-owned lands within Allensworth, Boggs Lake, Butte Creek Canyon, Calhoun Cut, Carrizo Plains, Dales Lake, Fagan Marsh, Phoenix Field, San Joaquin River, Stone Corral, and Thomes Creek Ecological Reserves. We also excluded four areas with Habitat Conservation Plans (HCPs), draft HCPs, Tribal lands, and on ecological preserve. These areas include the Assessment District 161 Subregional HCP (AD161 HCP) and the Draft Western Riverside HCP in Riverside County, the San Joaquin Multi-Species Conservation Plan in San Joaquin County, Mechoopda Tribal lands in Butte County, and the Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Reserve in Riverside County. Based on economic reasons, five counties were removed from the designation. Those counties are Butte, Madera, Merced, Sacramento, and Solano counties. Vector G-polygon 161 Label point 161 GT-polygon composed of chains 161 Node, planar graph 186 SimplePolygonFALSE161TRUEFALSESimpleLabelFALSE161FALSEFALSESimplePolygonTRUE161FALSEFALSESimpleNodeTRUE186FALSEFALSESimpleTicFALSE4FALSEFALSEPoint4 North American Datum of 1983 Geodetic Reference System 80 6378137.000000 298.257222 GCS_North_American_1983Decimal degrees0.0000000.000000 vernal_poolFeature Class161Polygons represent vernal pools in the Pacific region.Caltrans TSI/GIS Data BranchFIDFIDOID400Internal feature number.ESRISequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.ShapeShapeGeometry000Feature geometry.ESRICoordinates defining the features.AREA1212Number3Area of feature in internal units squared.ESRIPositive real numbers that are automatically generated.AREAPERIMETER1212Number3Perimeter of feature in internal units.ESRIPositive real numbers that are automatically generated.PERIMETERCRIT_HAB_95NumberInternal feature number.ESRISequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.CRIT_HAB_CRIT_HAB_I95NumberUser-defined feature number.ESRICRIT_HAB_ICRIT_HABIT1010StringIs the pool critical habitat (Yes, No)CRIT_HABITYesCritical habitatU.S. Fish and Wildlife ServiceNoNot critical habitatU.S. Fish and Wildlife ServiceCaltrans TSI/GIS Data BranchBUTTE_UNIT1212StringUnit number for Butte County meadowfoam.BUTTE_UNITU.S. Fish and Wildlife ServiceCOLUS_UNIT1212StringUnit number for Colusa grass.COLUS_UNITU.S. Fish and Wildlife ServiceCONFS_UNIT1212StringUnit number for Conservancy fairy shrimp.CONFS_UNITU.S. Fish and Wildlife ServiceCONTR_UNIT1212StringUnit number for Contra Costa goldfields.CONTR_UNITU.S. Fish and Wildlife ServiceFLSHY_UNIT1212StringUnit number for fleshy owl's-clover.FLSHY_UNITU.S. Fish and Wildlife ServiceGREEN_UNIT1212StringUnit number for Greene's tuctoria.GREEN_UNITU.S. Fish and Wildlife ServiceHAIRY_UNIT1212StringUnit number for hairy Orcutt grass.HAIRY_UNITU.S. Fish and Wildlife ServiceHOOVR_UNIT1212StringUnit number for Hoover's spurge.HOOVR_UNITU.S. Fish and Wildlife ServiceLONFS_UNIT1212StringUnit number for longhorn fairy shrimp.LONFS_UNITU.S. Fish and Wildlife ServiceSACRA_UNIT1212StringUnit number for Sacramento Orcutt grass.SACRA_UNITU.S. Fish and Wildlife ServiceSJVAL_UNIT1212StringUnit number for San Joaquin Valley Orcutt grass.SJVAL_UNITU.S. Fish and Wildlife ServiceSLEND_UNIT1212StringUnit number for slender Orcutt grass.SLEND_UNITU.S. Fish and Wildlife ServiceSOLAN_UNIT1212StringUnit number for Solano grass.SOLAN_UNITU.S. Fish and Wildlife ServiceVERFS_UNIT1212StringUnit number for vernal pool fairy shrimp.VERFS_UNITU.S. Fish and Wildlife ServiceVERTS_UNIT1212StringUnit number for vernal pool tadpole shrimp.VERTS_UNITU.S. Fish and Wildlife ServiceACRES1919Number3ACRESCaltrans TSI/GIS Data BranchAcreage of featurecrit_hab.natFeature Class186FIDFIDOID400Internal feature number.ESRISequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.ShapeShapeGeometry000Feature geometry.ESRICoordinates defining the features.ARC#125NumberCRIT_HAB#125NumberInternal feature number.ESRISequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.CRIT_HAB-ID95NumberUser-defined feature number.ESRI Linda Roberts U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service GIS Branch Chief 916/414-6708 916/414-6713 linda_roberts@fws.gov 7:30 am to 4:30 pm email or telephone mailing and physical address

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SacramentoCalifornia95825-1846USA Final critical habitat areas for 15 vernal pool species Although these data have been processed successfully on a computer system at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service using the best available information, no warranty expressed or implied is made regarding the accuracy or utility of the data on any other system or for general or scientific purposes, nor shall the act of distribution constitute any such warranty. This disclaimer applies both to individual use of the data and aggregate use with other data. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shall not be held liable for improper or incorrect use of the data described and/or contained herein. Fax or email request to Linda Roberts, fax number 916/414-6713. Request should include your name; your company name, address, and phone number; your email address; and the name of the species for which you want the critical habitat coverage . The Arc/Info export file will be emailed to you or sent on CD. 0.1240.124 August 6, 2003 August 6, 2013 20060530 GIS Branch Chief mailing and physical address

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Sacramento California 95825-1846 USA 916/414-6708 916/414-6713 linda_roberts@fws.gov 7:30 am to 4:30 pm email or telephone Linda RobertsU.S. Fish & Wildlife Service FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata FGDC-STD-001-1998 local time http://www.esri.com/metadata/esriprof80.html ESRI Metadata Profile enhttp://www.esri.com/metadata/esriprof80.htmlESRI Metadata Profile 2006060109305300FALSE20060710161256002009050513431300{3ACBD31D-29B7-4947-877C-D1B24707D097}Microsoft Windows 2000 Version 5.0 (Build 2195) Service Pack 4; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.1.0.722vernal_pool-123.709837-118.99485942.54948334.5844971-123.709837-118.99485942.54948334.5844971ISO 19115 Geographic Information - MetadataDIS_ESRI1.0dataset002file://\\svhqs02\newgis\data\shapes\geo83\state\vernal_pool.shpLocal Area Network0.124ShapefileGCS_North_American_198316120090505