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Description: "Critical and Mitigatable Fire Hazard areas as defined in General Plan adopted May 24, 1994. Critical Fire Hazard area is defined as a high wildfire hazard area composed of chaparral vegetative cover in all slope categories. Designated on the County Resource and Constraint maps or determined by field investigation. "Fire Hazard polygons. Attributes: C-FIRE = Critical Fire Hazard area is defined as a high wildfire hazard area composed of chaparral vegetative cover in all slope categories. Designated on the County Resource and Constraint maps or determined by field investigation. M-FIRE = Mitigable Critical Fire Hazard Areas fit into the following categories: (a)Critical Fire Hazard Area within the area bordered by the following access roads: From Day Valley Road to Freedom Blvd., to Hames Road, To Browns Valley Road to Hazel Dell Road , To Gaffey Road, down Highway 152 to Carlton Road, Carlton Road to Highway 129and ending at Murphy road. (b)Critical Frie Hazard Areas with mitigation based on the following criteria: (1) extent of the critical fire vegetation: (2) distance to adjacent fire hazard areas; (3) accessbility for fire fighting equipment; (4) air moisture content; (5) historic record of wildland fires; (6) slope and terrain.
Description: Liquefaction data based on map titled "Geology and Liquefaction Potential of Quaternary Deposits in Santa Cruz County" by William R. Dupre' 1975.
Description: Existing Parks--boundaries define recreational land which is owned/maintained as currently available park land. Improvements vary per park; some are highly developed with playing fields, picnic areas and recreational structures. Others are undeveloped, but maintained as either open space or available park space which is in the process of development. City, County and State lands residing within the County of Santa Cruz are represented here.
Description: "Grassland Areas as defined in General Plan adopted May 24, 1994. Grasslands, both native and non-native, having specialized flora quite different from other local habitat types, supporting a similarly specialized vertebrate population.There are three distinctive native grassland community types: north coast grasslands, valley grasslands, and meadow grasslands. North coast grasslands occur as the dominant habitat type on the north coast terraces inland of Highway 1. Common native grasses and flowering herbs include California oatgrass (Danthonia californica), golden eggs (Oenothera ovata), blue-eyed grass (Sisyrinchium bellum), and checker bloom (Sidalcea malveaflora). Valley grasslands occur on the rolling hills of the Watsonville Slough region. Although this region has lost much of its original native flora, it is still important as a habitat for at least one endangered plant, the Santa Cruz tarweed (Holocarpha macradenia).-Meadow grasslands, scattered throughout the mountainous areas of the County, occur intermixed with the forested north coast section of the Santa Cruz Mountains. Meadow grasslands exhibit characteristics of both the valley grasslands and the coastal prairie. They also contain several locally unique plant species. Most of the meadows are too small for important grassland wildlife species, but they do provide a valuable ecotonal habitat. (Santa Cruz County Local Coastal Program Land Use Plan 1981)"Grassland Area PolygonAttribute:GRASSLAND
Description: The Sand Hills Habitat layer consists of the Zayante sands soil type in the Scotts Valley, San Lorenzo Valley, and Bonny Doon area. In these locations, these soils provide habitat for State and federally listed endangered species and locally unique species, such as the Mount Hermon June beetle, the Zayante band-winged grasshopper, Scotts Valley spineflower, Ben Lomond wallflower, and silver-leaved manzanita.
Description: "Special Forest Areas as defined in General Plan adopted May 24, 1994. Forest areas, designated on the General Plan and Local Coastal Program Biotic Resources Maps, which are unique natural communities, limited in supply and distribution, threatened by substantial disturbance from human activities, and which provide habitat for rare, endangered and/or locally unique species of plants and animals. Examples of Special Forests include San Andreas Live Oak Woodlands, Valley Oak, Santa Cruz Cypress, indigenous Ponderosa and Monterey Pine, and ancient forests."
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Description: http://geo-nsdi.er.usgs.gov/metadata/open-file/98-792/metadata.faq.html#getacopy.4 A 1:62,500-scale black-and-white map identifying some 2,000 landslides of various types in Santa Cruz County, California.