Endangered Species Recovery Program
1999
Historical lakes of the San Joaquin Valley
vector digital data
Fresno, CA, US
Endangered Species Recovery Program
U.S. FWS, 1998 Recovery Plan for Upland Species of the San Joaquin Valley, California.
http://arnica.csustan.edu/esrpp
A coverage showing the approximate location of Historical lakes of the San Joaquin Valley.
To show Historical hydrographic features for figure 65 of the SJV Recovery Plan.
Based on "Historical Native Vegetation Map of the Tulare Basin, California", by Griggs, F.T., J.M. Zaninovich, and G.D. Werschkull. 1992
1998
ground condition
Irregular
-119.968
-118.954
36.2179
35.1163
None
Endangered Species
Recovery Planning
Conservation
Hydrography
Historical Lakes
None
United States
California
San Joaquin Valley
Tulare Lake
Goose Lake
Buena Vista Lake
Kern Lake
none
None. Acknowledgement of the Endangered Species Recovery Program would be appreciated in products derived from this data.
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hist_lakes.jpg
Graphic of theme hist_lakes
JPEG
Daniel F. Williams Ellen A. Cypher Patrick A. Kelly Nancy Norvell Scott E. Phillips
The attributes for "Kern River Channel" and "Goose Lake" were taken from the context of the USGS 1:250,000 Scale Bakersfield map. The remaining attribute names should be accurate according to the source map.
Arcs connect to each other at nodes. Arcs have direction and left and right sides. Arcs that connect to surround an area define a polygon.
The source map showed one continous body of water for the polygons labelled as "Kern River Channel", "Buena Vista Lake", and "Kern Lake". What appeared to be the edges of "Buena Vista Lake" were used to split this into three separate polygon features.
The source map was an scanned 8.5 by 11 page. The control points used for registering the scanned image were very approximate locations of river intersections. The accuracy is not suitable for large scale mapping and it is not recomended for purposes other than general illustrations of the lake locations.
Griggs, F.T., J.M. Zaninovich, and G.D. Werschkull
1992
Historical native vegetation map of the Tulare Basin, California.
map
Sacramento, CA, US
California Energy Commission
Pp. 111-118 in Endangered and sensitive species of the San Joaquin Valley, California: their biology, management, and conservation (D.F. Williams, S. Byrne, and T.A. Rado, eds.) 388 pp.
paper
1992
publication date
GRIGGS
The location of Historical water features of the Tulare Lake Basin, California.
Map from publication was scanned, registered to hydrographic intersections, and rectified. The scanned image was used to digitize water features from the map.
1998
Endangered Species Recovery Program
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US
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Vector
Universal Transverse Mercator
10
0.9996
-123
0
500000
0
Coordinate pair
10
10
meters
North American Datum of 1927
Clark 1866
6378206.4
294.98
Two attributes are "name" and "type". "name" is the name of the feature, and "type" is the type of feature using values consistent with the U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System. See http://mapping.usgs.gov/www/ti/GNIS/gnis_users_guide_toc.html for more details.
ESRP, 1999
Endangered Species Recovery Program
GIS Analyst
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US
559 453 1227
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Arc Export file of hist_lakes
No warranty, expressed or implied is made by the ESRP regarding the utility of the data, nor shall the act of distribution constitute any such warranty. These data are geographic illustrations and do not represent legal boundaries.
ARCE
7.2.1
no compression
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Large files may be GNU Zip compressed. Tools for decompression can be obtained from URL: http://www.gzip.org/
Generic PC with Linux i386 2.2.5
Data may be accessed online without charge.
computer with software to import ARC/INFO GIS data
19990706
Endangered Species Recovery Program
GIS Analyst
mailing
Fresno
CA
US
559 453 1227
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FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata
FGDC-STD-001-1998
local time
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