California Landscape Metrics (CLM)
Consolidating Metrics from all four Regional Resource Kits (RRK)
Purpose:
Reducing the risk of large, high intensity fire (and other mega-disturbances) through forest treatments has become a management imperative in California. A Strategy for Shared Stewardship (2018) and the USFS Wildfire Crisis Implementation Plan (2022) reinforce specific goals for pace and scale of strategic forest treatments over the next decade. Concurrently, the State of California has issued a new Wildfire and Forest Resilience Action Plan (2022) , designed to strategically accelerate efforts to restore the health and resilience of California forests through a joint State of California - Forest Service framework to improve and enhance forest stewardship in California. The social incentives and the scientific knowledge to pursue meaningful restoration of forested landscapes in California are firmly established.
High quality geospatial data are an essential ingredient to address restoration/conservation of the broad suite of core socio-ecological values across landscapes, and to drive analytic tools for planning management investments. To support these initiatives an interagency team of scientists from the USDA Forest Service Pacific Southwest Research Station (PSW), USDA Forest Service Region 5, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE) Fire and Resource Assessment Program (FRAP), the Climate and Wildfire Institute (CWI), and faculty from the University of California Berkeley and University of California Irvine (and subsequent efforts and activities will now also include the USDA California Climate Hub) collaborated on development of a comprehensive set of mapped data layers needed to accomplish large-scale landscape planning and restoration. Landscape level assessment using high quality data developed from ecological modeling techniques, informative analytical approaches and the resulting credible scientific outputs will be fundamental to inform and support large landscape restoration planning and execution.
The data layers included are meant to assist land managers in assessing their current landscape and plan for treatments to enhance resilience to human and natural disturbances. Thus, each layer represents what the interagency team believes are the most relevant and reliable geospatial data available at this time. Each layer has been examined by the team and is supported by published data and/or was developed using standard methods. The methods for developing each layer are documented in the metric dictionary; however, the accuracy of each layer has not been quantified. It is anticipated that all data layers will be updated and refined as methods and source data evolve and improve.
Data Availability:
This Home Page represents a next, important step in the cataloging and availability of metrics. When the Regional Resources Kits (RRK) were originally conceived and made available (September 2022) the metrics were the only resource in the kits. The plan was to create kits for each of the four regions identified by the California Wildfire & Forest Resilience Task Force (https://wildfiretaskforce.org/) and that is what was done over the next year. Recently (April 2024) all four regions were updated to bring in some corrections and updates to improve each kit.
This framework made sense originally however, as we have worked on building these sets of metrics and, in particular, learned much more about how we can efficiently and effectively manage and present the data, we have decided to make some changes. This “California Landscape Metrics” (CLM) compilation now includes the data for all regions of California. We believe this is an important step in making data available efficiently for any part of California.
This release of the California Landscape Metrics provides the metrics for the geographic coverage that the metric was created. Many metrics cover the entire state, others cover only a portion of the state for one reason or another. Users are able to access the data for the maximum extent available.
Future software modifications by the Task Force Data Hub will make it possible for a user to use any number of geographic “Areas of Interest”, regions, counties, watersheds, or even a shapefile that defines a project area that a user can submit, to define the area for which they want data. That will be available either later in the fall of 2024 or early 2025.
We believe this will make access to the metrics more effective overall, for the following reasons:
- Maintenance of the CLM will be much more efficient:
- They are all stored in one directory
- Only one metric dictionary is needed
- Updates/changes are only needed once, not four times
- Users can see what is available in the entire CLM suite, they do not have to search four kits
- Users can access whatever area of interest in relevant to them, avoiding confusion for areas along the boundary of regions
- We are still able to retain the tiering of metrics; some do, in fact, cover the entire state (tier 1); others are inherently only relevant to and available for certain portions of the state (tier 2)
We have labeled the CLM as version 5, to enable a fresh start to the kit. And we call it the “California Landscape Metrics” to reflect its geographic breadth and completeness. We will retain the structure of housing the metrics within the Regional Resource Kits for a time as people become familiar with these changes. Ultimately this will be the singular repository for metrics made available by the Task Force.
The original Regional Resource Kits, and now the California Landscape Metrics have adopted the "Framework for Resilience" to provide a structure for assessing landscape conditions, setting objectives, designing projects, and measuring progress towards social-ecological resilience. There are ten pillars that represent the desired outcomes of landscape resilience. Each of the pillars provide a series of metrics (the data layers) for assessing landscape conditions and verifying that actions meet resilience objectives.
Metrics describe the characteristics of elements in quantitative or qualitative terms. Users can use metrics to assess, plan for, measure, and monitor progress towards desired outcomes and greater resilience.
Data Access:
A total of 199 metrics has been developed statewide and are now available for download. Some cover the entire state, others are relevant and available for only a portion of the state. Users will see all data available for whatever area of interest they choose. Most data layers are available at 30 m resolution (i.e. pixels are 30 meters on a side), some are available at the resolution of the original data set (e.g. the climate refugia data are 270 meter pixel resolution).
Each data layer is available for viewing via downloading an image and the full data can also be downloaded as a zip file. In addition, the metadata are available for download. Links for all are located immediately adjacent to the listing of the data layer below under each of the ten pillars.
Use Constraints:
These data were collected from multiple sources, some which have specified use constraints. All data developed by the U.S. Government can be used without additional permissions or fees. Data developed by other sources may have other constraints. Please check each metric and their source to determine if any additional disclaimers exist. A full list of disclaimers by organization is available at the end of this webpage.
Appropriate use includes Regional assessments of vegetation cover, land cover, or land use change trends, total extent of vegetation cover, land cover, or land use change, and aggregated summaries of vegetation cover, land cover, or land use change. Further use includes applying these data to assess management opportunities for treatments to restore landscape resilience using GIS software and specialized Decision Support Tools.
There are use disclaimers and restrictions for specific data layers. Please review the information below under "Data Credit and Disclaimers" at the bottom of this page and consult any specifics for each metric when downloading data.
Data Products:
The metrics are organized by the 10 pillars of resilience in the "Framework for Resilience". Each pillar represents a resource outcome associated with resilient forest landscapes. We have 47 metrics covering the entire state, spanning the 10 pillars. The Metrics describe the characteristics of the elements of each pillar in quantitative or, in a few cases, qualitative terms. Metrics are used to assess current conditions, plan treatments, and monitor progress toward desired outcomes and greater resilience. Metrics are selected to be informative, meaningful, and actionable to meet the needs of management.
The metrics are divided into three "tiers." Among all these metrics, some are created and relevant statewide. That is what is included in this bundle of metrics:
Tier 1 - metrics that are a single, consistent data layer, developed statewide. Example: Annual Burn Probability.
Tier 2 - metrics relevant to and available for a single Region or relevant to multiple Regions but data layers differ among Regions because of varied data availability (sources) across Regions. Example: California gnatcatcher habitat suitability.
Tier 3 - metrics are those that would be of interest to some land managers for specific applications but not included in the CLM. Example: Distribution of the Quino checkerspot butterfly.
The addition of new metrics will be designated by noting as “new”. Similarly there could be data layers that have been removed. Users should check the previous version and compare with this version to identify layers removed.
Some data layers contain null values. We point this out here so users of the data will be aware and take whatever measures appropriate as they use and analyze the data. For some raster datasets in the CLM, areas have been masked (blanked) out and have a cell value of NoData (also referred to as null, NaN or missing). We, as producers and users of the data, cannot ignore NoData or fill them with zeros, since zero is often a valid value for some datasets. Removing NoData cells is not an option, a raster is a continuous grid. For users of the data performing further analyses and combining or "stacking" rasters, these NoData cells will mask out all values in that location in the output. To avoid this issue, the user must create values for the cells before combining them (i.e. 999 or any numeric value that is not real and clearly out of the range of the other values). Reasons for masking (blanking) out cells in CLM data:
- Cells are located in water bodies (e.g., lakes, reservoirs, or large rivers)
- Cells are located in urban areas
- Cells are located in areas used for irrigated agriculture
- Cells contain no information relevant to the dataset (e.g. for a streams data layer, areas outside of streams have NoData)
- Area (cells) subject to fire or other disturbance but the post disturbance condition or value is unknown
The metrics (by Pillar) included are listed below in brown. After each metric the source of the data is listed followed by a link to download a map of the data and to download the spatial data
A file naming convention has been developed to help organize it and make a file easily identifiable.
File Naming Definition:
<region prefix is included if applicable, none if statewide>_<description>_<vintage of source data, some may be a range of years>_<latest publish date>_<tier #>_<CLM version #>.<file format>
Examples:
- PotentialTotalSmoke_202209_202312_T1_v5.tif
- NorCal_BiomassTrmntCostHigh_202309_202401_T2_v5.tif
- CumulTreeCoverLoss_19912020_202312_T1_v5.tif (vintage represents a range from 1991 - 2020)
Use of prefixes
The following are the definitions for the four regional prefixes used in file naming.
- SNV = Sierra Nevada
- SoCal = Southern California
- CenCal = Central California
- NorCal = Northern California
CLEAN AIR IS IMPORTANT to human health and wellness, clean water, biodiversity, and ecosystems. Catastrophic wildfires degrade air quality and cause respiratory illnesses that affect millions of people, especially children and people who work outdoors. Furthermore, people prefer to enjoy the outdoors when it is safe to breathe, and the skies are clear. Smoke from wildfires discourages recreation and disrupts businesses and local economies. Land managers seek to improve forest health and resilience by using prescribed fire to reduce the risk of uncharacteristic fire and smoke.
OUTCOME: Emissions from fires are limited to primarily low- and moderate-severity fires in wildland ecosystems. Forests improve air quality by capturing pollutants.
Particulate Matter
BIODIVERSITY PLAYS A MAJOR ROLE in our ecosystems and society. Native plants and animals help forests recover after a fire, control flooding and soil erosion, and cycle nutrients. Biodiversity also holds cultural value, including Native American uses, and provides recreational benefits like birdwatching. Greater species diversity promotes adaptability and helps ecosystems withstand and recover from disturbances, including those caused by a changing climate.
OUTCOME: The network of native species and ecological communities is sufficiently abundant and distributed across the landscape to support and sustain their full suite of ecological and cultural roles.
Species Diversity
Focal SpeciesPlants Invertebrates Fish Reptiles and Amphibians Birds
CARBON SEQUESTRATION IS THE PROCESS by which carbon dioxide is taken up by trees, grasses, and other plants and stored as carbon in biomass and soils. Resilient forests and wetlands can be net sinks of carbon and can play an important role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere, thereby mitigating climate change. Forest products also play a role in storing carbon for decades in building materials, thereby delaying emissions.
OUTCOME: Carbon sequestration is enhanced in a stable and sustainable manner that yields multiple ecological and social benefits.
StorageStability
ECONOMIC DIVERSITY INCREASES business opportunities that provide regional economic vitality and additional benefits to rural and vulnerable populations. Resilient forests provide ecosystem services and forest products that in turn provide a foundation for many local and regional economic activities and employment opportunities, including recreation, tourism, and natural resource management industries.
OUTCOME: Forest management and outdoor activities support a sustainable, natural-resource-based economy, particularly in rural communities.
Wood Product Industry
DUE TO CLIMATE CHANGE and other drivers, wildfires increasingly threaten homes and communities, especially in the wildland-urban interface. Fire adapted communities are knowledgeable and engaged. They accept fire as part of the surrounding landscape, take action to reduce their vulnerability to fire, and adapt to live safely with fire.
OUTCOME: Communities have adapted to live safely in forested landscapes and understand the significance of fire to maintaining healthy forests. They have sufficient capacity to manage desired fire and suppress unwanted fire.
Hazard
FIRE IS AN INTEGRAL PART of Sierra Nevada forest ecosystems, which are evolutionarily adapted to fire. Ideally prescribed fires and managed wildfires would be allowed to burn across the landscape periodically. They would burn primarily at low to moderate severity in a mosaic pattern that covers large areas, which would provide substantial ecological benefits. Because climate change generally increases the severity of fire dynamics, managing such dynamics will continue to grow in importance.
OUTCOME: Fire burns in an ecologically beneficial and socially acceptable way that perpetuates landscape heterogeneity and rarely threatens human safety or infrastructure.
Functional Fire
Severity
RESILIENT FORESTS PROVIDE many ecosystem services, including wildlife habitat, clean water, stable soils, recreational opportunities, biodiversity, wood products, and carbon sequestration. They also play an important role in both mitigating and adapting to climate change. Across the landscape, management activities and natural disturbances should maintain desired forest conditions, including forest heterogeneity and wildlife habitat.
OUTCOME: Vegetation composition and structure align with topography, desired disturbance dynamics, and landscape conditions, and are adapted to climate change.
Structure
Composition
Disturbance
A GROWING BODY OF EVIDENCE indicates that greater exposure to nature is associated with better health and well-being. Sierra Nevada forests allow people to build and maintain active cultural and social connections to a place. Resilient landscapes offer opportunities for people to connect with the natural environment through recreation experiences, culturally valued resources, and engagement in natural resource management and conservation.
OUTCOME: The landscape provides a place for people to connect with nature, to recreate, to maintain and improve their overall health, and to contribute to environmental stewardship, and is a critical component of their identity.
Equitable Opportunity
Recreation Quality
RESILIENT FORESTED WATERSHEDS are key for regional and statewide water security. The economic value of California's water far exceeds that of any other forest product. Water flows from forests into rivers that provide critical aquatic and wetland habitat, and that supply agricultural and drinking water for tens of millions of people. Forests serve as natural water collection, storage, filtration, and delivery systems. These functions will become more important as climate change intensifies.
OUTCOME: Watersheds provide a reliable supply of clean water despite wide swings in annual precipitation, droughts, flooding, and wildfire.
Quantity
Quality
WETLANDS PROVIDE critical habitat, filter and retain nutrient pollution, store carbon, enhance water quality, control erosion, and provide spaces for recreation. They are local and regional centers of biodiversity, and support species found nowhere else across western landscapes. Functional wetland ecosystems will serve increasingly important roles in buffering impacts from extreme climate events, and upland disturbances such as flooding and erosion.
OUTCOME: Meadow and riparian ecosystems provide multiple ecosystem services and are key linkages between upland and aquatic systems in forested landscapes.
Hydrologic Function
Composition
Operational Data Layers Provided:
Fire
Administrative
Terrestrial
Aquatic
Metric Dictionary:
These data have been assembled in one place to provide comprehensive access for land managers. Accompanying all the data is a metric dictionary which provides details on the nature of each metric. Each metric has been defined to help end-users of the data (and for use with any decision support tools) to understand:
- What tier is the metric in (1, 2, or 3)?
- Data vintage
- The definition meant by a given metric
- The expected use(s) of the metric
- The resolution of the developed data
- The data sources used to derive the metric
- The method of metric derivation
- The root file names
References have been included to help the reader understand potential methods for deriving metrics. It is our hope this information will help people make better use of all the assembled information and how it can best be used with various decision support tools. This dictionary will be updated periodically, as necessary.
Access to the California Landscape Metrics Regional Resource Kit Metric Dictionary
Data Credits and Disclaimers:
For all data layers you are free to share, copy, and re redistribute the material in any medium or format AND adapt, remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, under the following terms:
Appropriate use includes regional assessments of vegetation cover, land cover, or land use change trends, total extent of vegetation cover, land cover, or land use change, and aggregated summaries of vegetation cover, land cover, or land use change. Further use includes applying these data to assess management opportunities for treatments to restore landscape resiliency.
Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
ShareAlike — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original.
Non-Commercial Use Only – Some data layers are restricted by the terms of the data provider.
“Non-commercial purposes” means that you may not sell, profit from, or commercialize the content within or works derived from them. Carefully review the terms of each data provider before using the data.
No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything this license permits.
- California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection - The State of California and the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection make no representations or warranties regarding the accuracy of data or maps. The user will not seek to hold the State or the Department liable under any circumstances for any damages with respect to any claim by the user or any third party on account of or arising from the use of data or maps. The user will cite the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection as the original source of the data, but will clearly denote cases where the original data have been updated, modified, or in any way altered from the original condition.
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California Department of Fish and Wildlife - The state makes no claims, promises, or guarantees about the accuracy, completeness, reliability, or adequacy of these data and expressly disclaims liability for errors and omissions in these data. No warranty of any kind, implied, expressed or statutory, including but not limited to the warranties of non-infringement of third-party rights, title, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and freedom from computer virus, is given with respect to these data.
Area of Conservation Emphasis (ACE)
The ACE data is subject to certain assumptions and limitations that must be considered in any use or application of the data. All ACE data layers are limited by the accuracy and scale of the input data. ACE is a compilation of the best available scientific information; however, many of these datasets are not comprehensive across the landscape, may change over time, and should be revised and improved as new data become available.
The user accepts sole responsibility for the correct interpretation and use of these data and agrees not to misrepresent these data. CDFW makes no warranty of any kind regarding these data, express or implied. By downloading these datasets, the user understands that these data are in draft condition and subject to change at any time as new information becomes available. The user will not seek to hold the State or the Department liable under any circumstances for any damages with respect to any claim by the user or any third party on account of or arising from the use of data or maps. CDFW reserves the right to modify or replace these datasets without notification.
The ACE maps display biological and recreational values based on available data and constrained by the limitations of the data. The values may be influenced by the level of survey effort in a given area. The ACE data represent broad-scale patterns across the landscape, and the value of any single watershed should be interpreted with caution. ACE is a decision-support tool to be used in conjunction with species-specific information and local-scale conservation prioritization analyses.
The ACE maps do not replace the need for site-specific evaluation of biological resources and should not be used as the sole measure of conservation priority during planning. No statement or dataset shall by itself be considered an official response from a state agency regarding impacts to wildlife resulting from a management action subject to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).
Biogeographic Information and Observation System (BIOS)
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Pyrologix
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This 2022 dataset is an update produced by Pyrologix for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) California State Office. The original 2020 dataset was developed by Pyrologix for the USFS Pacific Southwest Region. Citation for this data is in the References section below.
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University of California Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources
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We maintain current information on capacity, development, and status of facilities accepting feedstock from California wood resources. On this page you will find an interactive map and summary table of wood intake facilities. Here you can find a list of local community biomass initiatives and working groups. We also provide a variety of print-ready maps and raw data for download with assistance from the USFS.
This effort is built on contributions from the California Biomass Collaborative, California Energy Commission, California Public Utilities Commission, California Forestry Association, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Biomass Power Association, California Biomass Energy Alliance, California Energy Almanac, University of Montana, Watershed Research and Training Center, and individual facilities. We appreciate the feedback and input from Tad Mason and Fred Tornatore at TSS Consultants and Rob Williams from the UC Davis California Biomass Collaborative. Funding support is provided by the California Department of Forestry and the USFS Region 5 State and Private Forestry.
User to verify all information. May contain errors and omissions. Please reference Woody Biomass Utilization Group if using this data.
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Center for Ecosystem Climate Solutions (CECS) - UC Irvine
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Data Basin
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