California Natural Diversity Database
(California Department of Fish & Game) A fee-based database that contains location-specific information on California's endangered, threatened, and rare plants, animals, and natural communities. Data can be used to make conservation decisions, aid in better siting of development projects,and provide baseline data helpful in recovering endangered species and for research projects. Information can be retrieved by taxa, county, or USGS 1:24,000 scale topographic quadrangle. Products include text reports, detailed 1:24,000 quad overlays, gis layers, the standalone Rarefind application, and the free California Natural Diversity Database (CNDDB) Quick Viewer interactive mapper that lists species or natural communities that have been documented to occur within a county or a 1:24,000 topographic quad. The California Natural Diversity Database Special Animals (California Department of Fish and Game. Biogeographic Data Branch ) (print copy available in Cal Docs F 650 N37 S63)
lists all the "species at risk" animals in the database.