Gap Analysis of Wildlife Habitats of Merced Basin

Percentage of Area by Management Status
WHR Habitat Code WHR Habitat Type Status 1 Status 2 Status 3 Status 4 Area
(km2)
AGS Annual Grassland 0.0 0.0 2.6 97.4 113.3
BAR Barren 99.5 0.0 0.4 0.1 157.0
BOP Blue Oak-Foothill Pine 0.3 1.7 34.7 63.4 219.1
BOW Blue Oak Woodland 0.0 0.0 2.4 97.6 94.2
CPC Closed-Cone Pine-Cypress 1.6 0.0 87.4 11.0 5.8
CRC Chamise-Redshank Chaparral 0.1 2.0 76.1 21.8 257.9
CRP Cropland 0.0 0.0 11.4 88.6 2.9
DFR Douglas-Fir 64.2 1.9 19.2 14.7 14.8
JPN Jeffrey Pine 98.6 0.0 1.4 0.0 102.1
JUN Juniper 100.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.4
LAC Lacustrine 0.0 0.0 28.7 71.3 20.6
LPN Lodgepole Pine 97.8 0.0 2.1 0.1 229.6
MCH Mixed Chaparral 3.1 2.8 74.8 19.3 173.5
MCP Montane Chaparral 90.7 0.0 9.3 0.0 14.0
MHC Montane Hardwood-Conifer 37.8 0.0 61.6 0.6 14.5
MHW Montane Hardwood 10.6 3.2 74.4 11.8 298.3
MRI Montane Riparian 11.1 0.0 0.9 88.0 1.7
PPN Ponderosa Pine 33.1 0.2 51.7 15.0 377.7
RFR Red Fir 94.2 0.0 4.9 0.9 277.0
SCN Subalpine Conifer 99.4 0.0 0.6 0.0 147.1
SMC Sierran Mixed Conifer 70.3 0.0 24.7 5.0 256.0
VRI Valley-Foothill Riparian 0.0 0.0 11.5 88.5 0.3
WFR White Fir 43.5 0.0 54.5 2.0 53.2
WTM Wet Meadow 94.1 0.0 0.2 5.7 24.3

 
Management Status Level Explanation
Status 1 An area having permanent protection from conversion of natural land cover and a mandated management plan in operation to maintain a natural state within which disturbance events (of natural type, frequency, and intensity) are allowed to proceed without interference or are mimicked through management.
Status 2 An area having permanent protection from conversion of natural land cover and a mandated management plan in operation to maintain a primarily natural state, but which may receive use or management practices that degrade the quality of existing natural communities.
Status 3 An area having permanent protection from conversion of natural land cover for the majority of the area, but subject to extractive uses of either a broad, low-intensity type or localized intense type. It also confers protection to federally listed endangered and threatened species throughout the area.
Status 4 Lack of irrevocable easement or mandate to prevent conversion of natural habitat types to anthropogenic habitat types and allow for intensive use throughout the tract, or existence of such restrictions is unknown.