GIS data

Status 02/28/11

Source agency	Description	URL
Renewable Energy Transmission Initiative (RETI)	California energy project sites, substations, powerlines statewide, CREZ (Phase 2B for latest)	http://www.energy.ca.gov/reti/documents/index.html
Renewable Energy Transmission Initiative (RETI)	California transmission corridors, land ownership, disturbed areas, wildlife (Phase 2A)	http://www.energy.ca.gov/reti/documents/index.html
BLM Solar PEIS	shapefiles for western states of solar potential, administrative, some wildlife (core and extended databases, listed in http://solareis.anl.gov/documents/dpeis/maps/shape/Solar_PEIS_Shapefile_Contents.pdf)	http://solareis.anl.gov/maps/gis/index.cfm
BLM Cal office Geospatial downloads	Calif coverages and geodatabases of admin, grazing allotments, OHV and rec, renewable ROW (updated weekly?)	http://www.blm.gov/ca/gis/
Mojave Desert Ecosystem Project	On-request layers for admin, disturbed soils for Mojave only, desert tortoise critical habitat areas	http://www.mojavedata.gov/gis.html
USGS Desert Tortoise Habitat Model	ASCII rasters of environmental data for topo, soil factors, climate, veg cover	http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2009/1102/
Conservation Biology Institute Tehachapi project	spreadsheet of data layers and sources for western mojave	ask David for current xlsx file
Central Mojave Vegetation Database	veg coverage with condition attributes	online source not yet found, but see http://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=13890 for details