California Aquatic Resources Inventory (CARI) Wetlands - SFEI [ds2835]

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Summary

The California Aquatic Resources Inventory (CARI) is a Geographic Information System (GIS) dataset of wetlands, streams, and riparian areas consisting of polygon and line features that are standardized to a common wetland classification system. This statewide dataset is hosted online through http://www.EcoAtlas.org , a web-service specifically designed to provide wetland information, at variable landscape scales, to environmental scientists, managers and planners in support of the States Wetland and Riparian Area Protection Policy (WRAPP). CARI consists of 2 feature classes: Polygons (non-linear features such as wetlands, coastal areas and riparian areas) and Lines (streams). Versions of CARI preceding v3.0 had feature classes titled as Wetlands and Streams. The titles of these feature classes has changed to Polygons and Lines to be more inclusive of the data within CARI. EcoAtlas supports the States monitoring and assessment framework described in the States Five Year Coordinated Work Plan for Wetlands Conservation Program Development (Rev. March 2014) and the Tenets of a State Wetland and Riparian Area Monitoring Plan (WRAMP). The WRAMP framework employs the Federal Environmental Protection Agencys (USEPA) recommended three level monitoring and assessment framework for wetlands of which the fist level includes characterizing the distribution and amount of wetlands in their landscape setting using a GIS. CARI is the statewide GIS dataset that supports the WRAPP. EcoAtlas aggregates statewide monitoring and assessment data to address the core management questions of where are the wetlands and how are they doing? CARI was initiated in 2009 by the California Wetland Monitoring Workgroup (CWMW) with the goal of achieving an updateable, standardized, GIS dataset of aquatic resources in California that could be used by environmental managers, planners and the public to assess the distribution and amount of wetlands at variable landscape scales. EcoAtlas employs CARI to display the location of: wetland projects (with links to detailed project information), rapid ecological condition assessments (based on the California Rapid Assessment Method [CRAM]), and to summarize the diversity and amount of wetlands within a user defined area through the Landscape Profile tool.

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<DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV>Background The current version of CARI is a compilation of local, regional, and statewide aquatic resource GIS datasets into a standardized, seamless, statewide coverage of aquatic resources employing a common wetland classification system. In addition to this GIS, CARI can be viewed on www.EcoAtlas.org (CARI v3.0, released in June 2024), The CARI v3.0 dataset includes and incorporates data from a number of sources: <UL><LI>The <A href=" http://www.fws.gov:80/wetlands/index.html" STYLE="text-decoration:underline;">National Wetland Inventory </A>(NWI, last released in 2023) of the US Fish and Wildlife Service (no additional releases were observed since then in CA); </LI><LI>The <A href=" http://nhd.usgs.gov:80/data.html" STYLE="text-decoration:underline;">National Hydrography Dataset </A>(NHD, last updated in Sep, 2023) of the US Geological Survey, last updated in 2022; </LI><LI>San Francisco <A href="https://www.sfei.org:443/data/baylands-habitat-map-2020-gis-data" STYLE="text-decoration:underline;">Baylands Habitat Map 2020</A> (<A href="https://www.sfei.org:443/data/baylands-habitat-map-2020-gis-data" STYLE="text-decoration:underline;">BHM2020 v1.0</A> - 2024) </LI><LI>5 regional datasets developed by SFEIs GIS team using CARIs standardized, and more detailed, mapping protocols and used to demonstrate the WRAMP framework: <UL><LI>San Diego Aquatic Resource Inventory (<A href="https://www.sfei.org:443/data/san-diego-aquatic-resource-inventory-sdari-v11-gis-data" STYLE="text-decoration:underline;">SDARI v1.1</A>) - 2024 </LI><LI>Delta Aquatic Resource Inventory (<A href="https://www.sfei.org:443/data/delta-aquatic-resource-inventory-dari" STYLE="text-decoration:underline;">DARI v1.1</A>) - 2022 </LI><LI>San Francisco Bay Area Aquatic Resources Inventory (<A href=" http://www.sfei.org:80/data/baari-version-20-gis-data" STYLE="text-decoration:underline;">BAARI v2.1</A>) - 2017 </LI><LI>Lake Tahoe Basin (<A href=" http://www.sfei.org:80/data/tahoe-aquatic-resource-inventory-tari-version-21-gis-data" STYLE="text-decoration:underline;">TARIv2.1</A>) - 2016 </LI><LI>Laguna de Santa Rosa Plain (near Santa Rosa ,CA. <A href=" http://www.sfei.org:80/data/ncari-santa-rosa-plain-wramp-gis-data" STYLE="text-decoration:underline;">NCARI</A>) - 2013, and </LI></UL></LI><LI>Six County Aquatic Resources Inventory (including Sacramento, Placer, Yolo, El Dorado, Yuba, and Sutter Counties, California) developed by the US Army Corps of Engineers (Sacramento District) through federal funding - 2010. Subsequently reviewed and filtered by SFEI to remove duplicates and out of date and lower quality data in 2023. </LI><LI><A href="https://www.sfei.org:443/data/sfei-individual-vernal-pools-2023" STYLE="text-decoration:underline;">Individual vernal pools</A> mapped by SFEI - 2023 </LI><LI>Salinity classification produced by SFEI - 2023 </LI><LI>Bar-Built Estuaries Lagoons created by the Central Coast Wetlands Group (data published in 2009, 2012, and 2016) </LI><LI>National Estuarine Research Reserve High Resolution Land Cover (data from 2006, 2008, 2013, and 2016) </LI><LI>Vernal Pool mapping by Witham, C.W., 2021 </LI><LI>Sierra Nevada Multi-Source Meadow Polygons Compilation (v2.0) </LI><LI>Wet Meadows by UC Davis </LI><LI>Data sources specifically related to Coastal Habitats (Eelgrass, Coastal Dunes, Beaches, and Rocky Intertidal): <UL><LI>Eelgrass compilation by National Marine Fisheries Service West Coast Region (data digitized from 2005, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020) </LI><LI>SFEI Elevation-Modeled Beach/Rocky Intertidal Habitats classified via Environmental Sensitivity Index (ESI) data from NOAA - 2022. Please see the CARI Data Compilation Methods And Considerations > Wetland Data Integration/Development > Rocky Intertidal/Beaches section for more information. </LI><LI>Conserving California's Coastal Habitats Coastal Dune and Beach polygons from The Nature Conservancy - 2018 </LI><LI>CalVeg polygons associated with coastal dune habitats by the U.S. Forest Service - 2018 </LI><LI>VegCAMP dune habitat data by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife <UL><LI>Pt. Reyes NP, Muir Woods, and Golden Gate NRA VegCAMP - 2003 </LI><LI>Pismo State Beach and Oceano Dunes State Vehicular Recreation Area VegCAMP - 2015 </LI><LI>San Nicolas Island VegCAMP - 2013 </LI><LI>Santa Cruz Island VegCAMP - 2007 </LI><LI>Santa Clara River Parkway VegCAMP - 2007 </LI></UL></LI><LI>California Natural Diversity Database coastal dune polygons from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife - 2009 </LI><LI>Additional SF Bay Beaches digitized by SFEI staff and in consultation with RB2 Waterboard staff - 2022 </LI><LI>Humboldt Dunes published by University of California Santa Barbra </LI></UL></LI></UL>CARI is the only statewide aquatic resource dataset that has been compiled and standardized to a common classification system. However, CARI dataset varies in detail and accuracy across the state, and represents different time periods for different areas. Users are advised to get familiar with the level of detail available for their area/s of interest to understand the potentially different levels of mapping details represented across their area/s of interest. Future releases of CARI will incorporate updated data sources as they become available. In order for new datasets to be integrated into future releases of CARI, they must meet the minimum standards discussed in the CARI SOP. The vision for CARI is that it will be used by resource agencies, city and county land-use planners, scientists, and other stakeholders as the go-to map to visualize and summarize aquatic resources in their regions for monitoring, and assessment purposes. As more stakeholders use the online wetland monitoring and assessment tools on EcoAtlas, regional interests will improve the map by editing it. EcoAtlas has an online CARI editing tool that allows users to employ the CARI mapping standards and methods to submit suggested updates by submitting direct online edits or by uploading a KML or GIS file. More information on CARI, including definitions, details and methods can be found online at: <A href=" http://www.sfei.org:80/CARI" STYLE="text-decoration:underline;"> http://www.sfei.org/CARI</A> . Description of Updates in CARI version 3.0 CARI v3.0 represents a significant step towards the integration of regional automated wetland mapping into CARI. With this update two automated wetland mapping projects are incorporated: The San Francisco Baylands Habitat Map 2020 and the San Diego Aquatic Resource Inventory. These two projects are two of the first primarily automated wetland mapping projects to be included and represent a foundation for the Institute to continue to build off of in order to pursue timely and scalable wetland mapping that can help with larger accounting of critical wetland and other aquatic resources as well as support change analysis. The update continues to make use of previous advancements in the scripted compilation of a wide range of datasets across the full state. Description of Updates in CARI version 2.2 CARI v2.2 further implements the approach first utilized in v1.0 to automate incorporation of the most recent and highest quality data based on available metadata and spatial intersections into CARI for the entirety of the state, rather than just the coastal HUC watersheds updated in v1.0. Furthermore additional work was done to refine the integration of national and regional datasets and crosswalk it to the CARI classification system. Below are listed some of the specific improvements in this latest version of CARI <UL><LI>Integration of the most recent NHD and NWI mapping for the entire state </LI><LI>Review and filtering of Six-County data to remove overlapping mapping and only include data that was more recent and accurate than other available data </LI><LI>Improve the classification and refinement of lake and depression polygons while integrating features from multiple datasets. </LI><LI>Address duplicative mapping, overlaps, and edge-effect artifacts from integration of multiple datasets </LI><LI>Integrated wet meadows dataset provided by UC Davis </LI><LI>Integrated individual vernal pools mapped by SFEI </LI><LI>Salinity classifications for CARI features produced by SFEI </LI></UL>Description of Updates in CARI version 1.0 CARI v1.0 represents a significant upgrade to how CARI is compiled. A scripted approach is now employed in order to allow incorporation of the more recent and highest quality regions of different datasets to be identified, using available metadata, and incorporated into CARI. This allows updates to CARI from datasets such as NHD and NWI to be accomplished more easily and quickly. In addition a number of additional datasets are incorporated in order to capture a number of coastal aquatic feature types such as beaches, rocky intertidal, and coastal dunes. For more information please see the CARI SOP which can be found at http://www.sfei.org/CARI . CARI v1.0 was released in September 2022. Description of Updates in CARI version 0.3 <OL><LI>BAARI v2.1 (2017) Streams, Wetlands and Baylands were integrated into CARI </LI><LI>Stream data from the Santa Clara Valley Water Districts 2004 <A href=" http://data-valleywater.opendata.arcgis.com:80/datasets/e74548aaba0e46918523d62645e283fd_9" STYLE="text-decoration:underline;">Santa Clara Valley Creeks </A>replaced the NHD streams in approximately the Santa Clara County portion of the Pajaro River watershed, including the Pajaro river itself and Llagas, Uvas/Carnadero and Pacheco Creek watersheds. These streams were then classified by SFEI as Natural or Unnatural. </LI></OL>CARI v0.3 was released in December 2017 Description of Updates in CARI version 0.2 Revised streams and wetlands from <A href=" http://www.sfei.org:80/data/tahoe-aquatic-resource-inventory-tari-version-21-gis-data" STYLE="text-decoration:underline;">TARI v2.1</A>(2016) were integrated into the CARI v0.2 dataset. CARI v0.2 was released in May 2016. CARI version 0.1 CARI v0 was released in June 2014. Description of Attribute Fields in CARI CARI consists of 2 feature classes: Wetlands (polygons) and Streams (lines). The feature attributes serve both to classify the wetland type and to provide information about the source of the data. For more details about attributes, mapping methodology, and the methods of compiling multiple data sources into CARI refer to the CARI SOP available at <A href=" http://www.sfei.org:80/CARI" STYLE="text-decoration:underline;"> http://www.sfei.org/CARI</A> . POLYGONS (Previously titled Wetlands) clickcode: an alphanumeric code based on the CARI wetland classification (as presented in Table 1, below). clicklabel: a detailed description of a feature's wetland type. Clicklabel is the most detailed classification provided by CARI. Original classifications from component datasets (see orig_class'') are translated or "crosswalked into CARI's classification system. While CARI's component datasets may provide more detail for certain types of wetlands, CARI provides a single statewide classification for wetland types, e.g. "Depressional Perennial Natural Emergent". Major classes within the 'click label' field include: wetlands and (deep) open water. Classes and types include: depressions, playas, estuarine, lacustrine, marine, riverine, lagoon, and slope. name: the name of a particular wetland feature. (e.g. Alpine Lake) orig_dataset: the original source dataset for a feature that was integrated into CARI orig_class: original classification of the wetland in the source dataset. Source datasets (e.g. NWI, BAARI) use different classification systems. The 'orig_class' field preserves that information. organization: the agency or organization that originally mapped the wetland feature orig_dataset_pubyear: The year that the original dataset was published process_adjustment: Notes indicating how the original dataset was adjusted to fit CARI Standards source_data: a description of the imagery or other primary data source, including year of collection, from which the wetland feature was identified and mapped source_estimatedyear: Most recent estimated year of source data from source data field orig_scale: Scale that original dataset was digitized at or image scale legend_headings: In EcoAtlas.org, 'legend_headings' is the value that appears in the legend heading. legcode: a 1-3 letter code signifying the major wetland class, associated with the 'leglabellevel2' field. Provides less detail than 'clickcode'. leglabellevel1: Common terminology for a feature's wetland type. In EcoAtlas.org, Leglabellevel1 is the value that appears in the legend, when you click on a particular feature to identify it, and in analyses of wetland areas generated by EcoAtlas' Landscape Profile Tool. leglabellevel2: Major classification (less detailed) of the wetland classification provided by the 'click label' field. E.g. "Depressional". major_class: General category that distinguishes open water from wetland areas. Corresponds with the first letter of clickcode. wetland_class: More specific wetland classification than major class. Corresponds with the second letter of clickcode anthropogenic_modifier: Classification that indicates if the aquatic features physical structure has been significantly impacted by anthropogenic activities. e.g a depressional wetland occurring due to water backing up behind a man made berm or levee. Corresponds with the third letter of clickcode wetland_type: Wetland type that provides additional wetland classification speciation in the context of the wetland_class. This wetland classification is consistent with CRAM module types. Corresponds with the fourth letter of clickcode wetland_subtype: Wetland type that provides additional wetland classification speciation in the context of the wetland class and wetland types. Corresponds with the fifth letter of clickcode tidal_modifier: Indicates tidal influence on an aquatic resource. Corresponds with the sixth letter of clickcode vegetation_modifier: Indicates the dominant type of vegetation for an aquatic feature. Corresponds with the seventh and last letter of clickcode salinity_modifier: Classification of salinity from six classes: Fresh (<0.5 ppt salinity), Oligohaline (0.5-5 ppt), Mesohaline (5-18 ppt), Saline (>18 ppt), Bar-Built (Variable), Undefined. salinity_source: Generalized description of the source data used to assign the salinity modifier. salinity_additional_information: A description of the source data that offers a greater level of detail. lastupdate: the date that the CARI integration script was last run to integrate that feature CARI_id: Unique id for that CARI feature LINES (Previously titled Streams) clickcode: an alphanumeric code for the wetland classification (as presented in Table 1, below). clicklabel: a detailed description of a feature's wetland type. Clicklabel is the most detailed classification provided by CARI. Original classifications from component datasets (see orig_class) are translated or "crosswalked into CARI's classification system. Clicklabel values include: "Fluvial Natural", "Fluvial Unnatural", "Tidal Natural", and "Tidal Unnatural". name: the name of a particular wetland feature. (e.g. Pajaro River) orig_dataset: the original source dataset for a feature that was integrated into CARI orig_class: Original classification of the wetland in the source dataset. Source datasets (e.g. NWI, BAARI) use different classification systems. The 'orig_class' field preserves that information. organization: the agency or organization that originally mapped the wetland feature orig_dataset_pubyear: The year that the original dataset was published process_adjustment: Notes indicating how the original dataset was adjusted to fit CARI Standards source_data: a description of the imagery or other primary data source from which the wetland feature was identified and mapped source_estimatedyear: Most recent estimated year of source data from source data field orig_scale: Scale that original dataset was digitized at or image scale legheader: In EcoAtlas.org, 'legheader' is the value that appears in the legend heading. "Drainage Features" is the only value for legheader. legcode: a 1 or 2 letter code identifying whether the major stream class has tidal influence (TR) or not (R), associated with the 'leglabel' field. Provides less detail than 'clickcode'. leglabel: Common terminology for a feature's wetland type. In EcoAtlas.org, Leglabel is the value that appears in the legend, when you click on a particular feature to identify it, and in analyses of wetland area generated by EcoAtlas' Landscape Profile tool. Leglabel values include:"Fluvial" and "Tidal". major_class: General category that distinguishes open water from wetland areas. Corresponds with the first letter of clickcode. CRAM_wetland_type: Wetland type that provides additional wetland classification speciation in the context of the wetland_class. This wetland classification is consistent with CRAM module types. Corresponds with the second letter of clickcode anthropogenic_modifiers: Classification that indicates if the aquatic features physical structure has been significantly impacted by anthropogenic activities. e.g a channel that has been straightened through human engineering efforts. Corresponds with the third letter of clickcode lastupdate: the date that the CARI integration script was last run to integrate that feature CARI_id: Unique id for that CARI feature</DIV></DIV></DIV>

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San Francisco Estuary Institute and Aquatic Science Center 2023

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West -124.524273 East -113.470499 North 42.339340 South 32.423158

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Themes or categories of the resource biota, environment, geoscientificInformation, inlandWaters

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Theme keywords wetland, stream, riparian, mapping, tidal, estuary, lake, river, creek, spring, playa, reservoir, channel, vegetation, resource, bay, delta, vernal pool, depression, pond

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Title California Aquatic Resources Inventory (CARI) Wetlands - SFEI [ds2835]

Publication date 2015-06-3000:00:00

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Individual's name Alex Braud
Organization's name San Francisco Estuary Institute
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Individual's name Josh Collins
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