Look for complete geospatial metadata in this layer's associated xml document available from the download link * Metric Name: Pacific Fisher Suitable Habitat * Tier: 2 * Data Vintage: 04/2023 * Unit Of Measure: Categorical - classified into one of the following habitat suitability categories: Value Desc_ 0 Not suitable 1 Moderate foraging 2 High foraging 12 High reproduction, Moderate foraging 21 Moderate reproduction, High foraging 22 High reproduction and foraging * Metric Definition and Relevance: The Pacific fisher population in the southern Sierra is federally listed **** as a threatened population and resides primarily on National Forest System lands. Habitat management for this species is determined based on a Conservation Strategy developed by the US Forest Service and augmented by a recovery strategy developed by the US Fish and Wildlife Service. This species is found in the Northern California and Sierra Nevada Regions. * Creation Method: CWHR classifications are based on a combination of FVEG 2023 for canopy cover, size class and vegetation type. The vegetation data includes a variety of tree, shrub, grassland, and water dominated habitats. Species are considered present, and habitats considered suitable for each 30m cell for which the canopy cover-size-vegetation combination have been deemed suitable for the reproduction or foraging of that species in the California Wildlife Habitat Relationship database. Suitable habitat for the Pacific fisher is based on CWHR moderate and high suitability habitat for denning (reproduction) and foraging. CWHR suitability values were used to create a data layer that separately identifies suitable denning and suitable foraging habitat which meets the following criteria: * Suitable foraging vegetation types: WHRTYPE = DFR, EPN, JPN, MHC, MHW, MRI, PPN, SMC, WFR, RFR, LPN * Suitable foraging habitat: size/density classes = 4M, 4D, 5M, 5D, 6 * Suitable denning vegetation types: WHRTYPE = DFR, EPN, JPN, MHC, MHW, MRI, PPN, SMC, WFR * Suitable denning habitat: size/density classes = 4D, 5M, 5D, 6 The combined (denning and foraging) suitable habitat layer has been further refined and clipped to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service species range extent from the Environmental Conservation Online System (ECOS) available at . * Credits: * FVEG 2023 * California Department of Fish and Wildlife CWHR version 9.0 (CDFW); 2014