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Wildlife Movement Barriers - CDFW [ds2867]

Metadata Updated: October 23, 2025

CDFW divides the state into six administrative Regions. CDFW staff in each Region identified linear segments of infrastructure that currently present barriers to wildlife populations in their jurisdiction. In doing so, the Regions used all available empirical information in their possession, including existing connectivity and road crossing studies, collared-animal movement data, roadkill observations, and professional expertise. This dataset represents all barriers identified statewide as of June 2024 and former barriers that have been remediated since 2020. This dataset represents CDFW's ongoing effort to identify priority wildlife movement barriers across the state. Currently, increasing attention is being directed toward wildlife habitat connectivity as a mechanism of maintaining biodiversity in the face of population growth and climate change. Listing priority wildlife barrier locations will help focus limited financial resources where the highest need has been identified to improve wildlife movement. This is complementary to CDFW’s fish passage barrier priorities that have been identified for anadromous fish. Like the fish passage priorities, the wildlife barrier priorities list will be periodically updated to reflect new information and barrier removal successes. Most of the barriers identified are highway segments, but other infrastructure types such as fencing, canals, local roads, and high speed rail alignments are also represented. Additional information can be found at https://wildlife.ca.gov/Conservation/Wildlife/Connectivity/Barriers.

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Dates

Metadata Created Date July 23, 2025
Metadata Updated Date October 23, 2025

Metadata Source

Harvested from State of California

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date July 23, 2025
Metadata Updated Date October 23, 2025
Publisher California Department of Fish and Wildlife
Maintainer
Identifier c22281a8-381d-499c-ac41-b1a35ebe229d
Data First Published 2023-03-08T16:11:15.000Z
Data Last Modified 2025-10-02T16:39:51.290Z
Category Natural Resources
Public Access Level public
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Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
Harvest Object Id 4264674f-b01f-4f63-b5c4-05214e13d1de
Harvest Source Id 3ba8a0c1-5dc2-4897-940f-81922d3cf8bc
Harvest Source Title State of California
License http://www.opendefinition.org/licenses/cc-by
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash e0cbc51d1167a2c6fdb8a0128e5f32c9f4f423452388ccb6b6176f7b172f7b2a
Source Schema Version 1.1

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