An accurate depiction of the spatial distribution of habitat types
within California is required for a variety of legislatively-mandated
government functions. The California Department of Forestry and Fire
Protection's CALFIRE Fire and Resource Assessment Program (FRAP), in
cooperation with California Department of Fish and Wildlife VegCamp
program and extensive use of USDA Forest Service Region 5 Remote Sensing
Laboratory (RSL) data, has compiled the "best available" land cover
data available for California into a single comprehensive statewide data
set. The data span a period from approximately 1990+. Typically the
most current, detailed and consistent data were collected for various
regions of the state. Decision rules were developed that controlled
which layers were given priority in areas of overlap. Cross-walks were
used to compile the various sources into the common classification
scheme, the California Wildlife Habitat Relationships (CWHR) system. This
service depicts the WHRTYPE description from the fveg dataset (Wildlife
Habitat Relationship classes).The full dataset can be downloaded in raster format here: GIS Mapping and Data Analytics | CAL FIREThe
service represents the latest release of the data, and is updated when a
new version is released. Currently it represents fveg15_1.
