Biological Resource Conservation

Find information on Ventura County’s natural environment—such as wetlands, wildlife movement corridors and locally important plants—and local policies that are in place to protect these resources.

Biological Resource Conservation

Biological Resources

Find information on Ventura County’s natural environment—such as wetlands, wildlife movement corridors and locally important plants—and local policies that are in place to protect these resources.

Maps/GIS Data

Wetlands Map Viewer

Wetlands Shapefile
The wetlands maps and shapefile represent a 2003 update of Ventura County wetlands maps by the National Wetlands Inventory NWI). A few quads in the County were not included in this update. Go to the NWI website if you need data for those quads. Remember that these maps were developed through photointerpretation, which cannot capture everything accurately. Many protected wetlands will not show up on these maps.

Santa Monica Mountains Vegetation Classification

► Vegetation Classification of the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area and Environs in Ventura and Los Angeles Counties, California pdf

► USGS-NPS Vegetation Mapping Program, Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, Photo Interpretation Report pdf

Local Plants

What Grows Here

Plant lists of the Channel Islands Chapter of the California Native Plant Society

Wildlife Movement

Designing Road Crossings for Safe Wildlife Passage: Ventura County Guidelines pdf

Conservation Subdivisions

Learn about subdividing land for the purpose of donating or selling a lot to a conservation agency.

Donating or Selling a Lot to a Conservation Agency pdf

Publications

Wetlands Project Permitting Guide pdf

Guide to Native and Invasive Streamside Plants pdf

Guide to Stream and Wetlands Project Funding pdf

Protection of Nesting Birds pdf
For more information about biological resource issues, contact staff biologist Christina Danko, 805/654-5193, or Grants Administrator, Lorraine Rubin at 805/654-2466.