The California Natural Diversity Database (CNDDB) is an inventory of the status and locations of rare plants and animals in California. CNDDB staff work with partners to maintain current lists of rare species, as well as to maintain an ever-growing …

The CNDDB QuickView Tool is a free Internet application that provides users with a list of all tracked elements that have been documented by the CNDDB and the Spotted Owl Observations Database (SPOWDB) to occur in a selected USGS 7.5' topographic quad or in a selected county.

If you have data in decimal degrees, deg/min/sec, or UTM, you can use BIOS to map your location using NAD83, the datum used by the CNDDB. Print out the map and mail with your field survey form to the CNDDB.

The CNDDB program was first established as California’s natural heritage program by The Nature Conservancy in 1979 and transferred to the Department in 1981 via Fish and Game Code Chapter 12 Section 1932.

All Heritage Programs, including the California Natural Diversity Database (CNDDB) use the same ranking methodology, originally developed by The Nature Conservancy and now maintained and periodically revised by NatureServe.

The California Natural Diversity Database (CNDDB) is a product of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife's Biogeographic Data Branch (BDB). The CNDDB is both a manual and computerized library of the status and locations of California's …

CNDDB Data Use Guidelines . Table of Contents . Limitations of the GIS dataset, and how to get more details..... 1 Why are there so many different shapes and sizes of CNDDB occurrences?..... 2

The California Natural Diversity Database (CNDDB) is an inventory of the status and locations of rare plants and animals in California. CNDDB staff work with partners to maintain current lists of rare species, as well as to maintain an ever-growing …

The CNDDB QuickView Tool is a free tool in the BIOS map viewer that will generate a list of species for which the CNDDB has mapped data and/or unprocessed data in specified quads or counties. You can also search by species.

• CNDDB’s BIOS 6 Public Viewer is completely free to use and does not require a CNDDB Subscription or a CDFW Login. • Is a great resources management tool for understanding what sensitive species and/or resources have been known to occur within or near a proposed project area. • Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox are the preferred web