U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

Sacramento Fish & Wildlife Office

Vernal Pool Critical Habitat
Federal Register Maps

(All maps are in PDF format.)

GIS Files

Project Developers:

For precise geospacial data about critical habitat, use the Critical Habitat Mapper from our national website.

For more information, contact our Geographic Information Systems Branch, (916) 414-6600

Critical Habitat

Critical Habitat, What is it? (PDF 142KB)

Species with Critical Habitat from National Threatened and Endangered Species System (TESS)

For more information about critical habitat, contact the Endangered Species Division, (916) 414-6600.

NOTE

This is a guide to the maps published in the Federal Register. For precise geospacial data about critical habitat, project developers should use the Critical Habitat Mapper from our national website.

For easy viewing using Google Earth, Flickr, ArcGIS Explorer and other programs, see our KML Critical Habitat Maps page.

Critical Habitat Designation—2005

On August 11, 2005, the Service published a final critical habitat designation for 22 vernal pool ecosystem units in California and Oregon. However, we did not designate the critical habitat on a species by unit basis. The maps in this notice are for historic reference only, not for project development.

Read the News release and Q & A.
See also the table of acreage totals by county

Designation of Species by Unit—2006

In a February 10, 2006, revision, we identified the designated critical habitat on a species by unit basis.

These are the maps to use if you want a general idea of which species are protected in a specific area. For more precise data, use the Service's national Critical Habitat Mapper.

The pdf version of the Federal Register notice (Federal Register 71:7117) is quite large (2MB). For your convenience we have broken it down into parts that can be downloaded. See below.

The Plain text version of the Federal Register notice is much smaller (490KB). It has unit descriptions but no maps.

See also unit descriptions and statistics (3.2MB)

Sections of the 2/10/06 Notice

Introduction. Conservancy and longhorn fairy shrimps. (2.7MB)

Vernal pool fairy shrimp
part 1 (3.5MB) part 2 (3.2MB) part 3 (2.3MB)

Tadpole shrimp part 1 (3.4MB) part 2 (1.6MB)

Contra Costa Goldfields, Butte Meadowfoam, Colusa grass (1.1MB)

Fleshy owl's-clover, Hoover's spurge (1.1MB)

San Joaquin and hairy Orcutt grasses (1.1MB)

Slender, Sacramento and Solano Orcutt grasses. Greene's tuctoria. (1.8MB)

Sacramento Fish & Wildlife Office
Endangered Species Program
www.fws.gov/sacramento
2800 Cottage Way, Room W-2605
Sacramento, CA 95825
(916) 414-6600