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Title: Super Planning Watersheds: San Francisco Bay Area, California, 2009

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Dates

  • Issued: 2011
  • Coverage: 2009

Publishers

  • Bay Area Open Space Council

Summary

This polygon shapefile depicts a dissolve that was run on the super planning watersheds for the nine county San Francisco Bay Area Region, California. Super planning watersheds are those ranging in size from 78-194 square miles or 50,000-124,999 acres (Myers & Peltz-Lewis, 2004). Watersheds are useful for many aspects of the Project, including development of watershed integrity analysis. This data was derived from the California Watershed Map (CalWater version 2.2), a set of standardized watershed boundaries meeting standardized delineation criteria. The hierarchy of watershed designations consists of six levels of increasing specificity: Hydrologic Region (HR), Hydrologic Unit (HU), Hydrologic Area (HA), Hydrologic Sub Area (HSA), Super Planning Watershed (SPWS), and Planning Watershed (PWS). The primary purpose of CalWater is the assignment of a single, unique code to a specific watershed polygon. These data were critical for the Fish and Riparian Focus Team portion of the Project. This dataset was developed/compiled for use in the San Francisco Bay Area Upland Habitat Goals Project, a Project used to identify a Conservation Lands Network (CLN) for biodiversity preservation to inform conservation investments and lasting cooperative conservation partnerships. The Conservation Lands Network GIS Database is the primary output of the Project. The data depicts the spatially explicit CLN that is recommended for the nine county San Francisco Bay Area Region, California. Bay Area Open Space Council, GreenInfo Network, Conservation Lands Network, and San Francisco Bay Area Upland Habitat Goals Project. (2011). Super Planning Watersheds: San Francisco Bay Area, California, 2009. Bay Area Open Space Council. Available at http://purl.stanford.edu/xg146zh9066. Source metadata and data available at: http://frap.cdf.ca.gov/data/frapgisdata-sw-calwater_download.php This layer is presented in the WGS84 coordinate system for web display purposes. Downloadable data are provided in native coordinate system or projection.

Subjects

  • Environment
  • Boundaries
  • San Francisco Bay (Calif.)
  • San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.)
  • Alameda County (Calif.)
  • Contra Costa County (Calif.)
  • Marin County (Calif.)
  • Napa County (Calif.)
  • San Francisco County (Calif.)
  • San Mateo County (Calif.)
  • Santa Clara County (Calif.)
  • Solano County (Calif.)
  • Sonoma County (Calif.)
  • Hydrography
  • Hydrological surveys
  • Watersheds
  • Planning and Cadastral
  • Datasets

Geospatial coordinates

  • Bounding Box: BBOX (-123.532115, -121.208298, 38.864317, 36.893111)
  • Geometry: BBOX (-123.532115, -121.208298, 38.864317, 36.893111)

Provider

Stanford

Rights

  • Access rights: Public

Citation

Bay Area Open Space Council, Conservation Lands Network, San Francisco Bay Area Upland Habitat Goals Project, GreenInfo Network (Firm). Super Planning Watersheds: San Francisco Bay Area, California, 2009. Bay Area Open Space Council. Polygon data. https://purl.stanford.edu/xg146zh9066

Format

Shapefile

Languages

  • English