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Native plants Native wildlife Invasive species Restoration Wildfires Gardening with native plants Conservation organizations and information Land management organizations Other NCCP plans Resource agencies - Regulatory information Species sensitivity status lists Climate Mapping tools Other useful resources

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Native plants

• Plants of San Diego County, vegetation and taxonomy (M.G. Simpson)
• San Diego County Plant Atlas Project (SDNHM) - lots of useful tools
• CalPhotos (UC Berkeley) - photographs of native plants
• Jepson Interchange
• Plant Checklists for San Diego and Imperial Counties (SDNHM)

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Native wildlife

All wildlife

• California's Wildlife (CDFG) - range maps and life history

Invertebrates

• Butterflies of Greater Los Angeles (Sieng 1998)
• Butterflies of San Diego County - a checklist (SDNHM)

Reptiles and Amphibians

• Reptiles and amphibians of coastal southern California - a field guide USGS 2003)

Birds

• San Diego County Bird Atlas Project (SDNHM) overview
• About Birds - Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Mammals

• San Diego County Mammal Atlas Project overview
• Key to Bats of Central California (Hastings Natural History Reservation)

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Invasive species

• California Department of and Game invasive species information
• California Native Plant Society invasive species information
• California Department of Food and Agriculture "Encycloweedia" - all about weeds
• The story of a non-native seaweed infestation in Agua Hedionda Lagoon
• Southern California Caulerpa Action Team

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Habitat restoration

• California Society for Ecological Restoration

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Wildfires

General information

• San Diego Wildfires Education Project

Fire prevention

• Fire, Defensible Space, and You - County of San Diego
• Homeowners Wildfire Mitigation Guide - University of California
• City of Carlsbad Fire Department - Brush Management

Fire recovery

• Homeowner's Guide to Flood, Debris, and Erosion Control after Fires - County of San Diego
• Protecting Your Property from Soil Erosion - County of San Diego

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Gardening with native plants

• Water Conservation Garden at Cuyamaca College - waterwise gardening resources
• Buena Vista Native Plant Club

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Conservation organizations and information

• Buena Vista Audubon Society
• Carlsbad Watershed Network
• Buena Vista Lagoon Foundation
• Batiquitos Lagoon Foundation
• Agua Hedionda Lagoon Foundation
• USGS Western Ecological Research Center

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Land management organizations

• Center for Natural Lands Management
• San Diego Habitat Conservancy
• CDFG Lands Program overview

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Natural community conservation plans

• NCCP Overview
• North County Multiple Habitat Conservation Program (MHCP) overview
• County of San Diego Multiple Species Conservation Program (MSCP) overview

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Regional Coordination

• SANDAG Transnet Environmental Mitigation Program
• San Diego Management and Monitoring Program
• SDSU Institute for Ecological Monitoring and Management

Resource agencies - Regulatory information

• California Department of Fish and Game(CDFG) Permitting
• CDFG Habitat Conservation Branch
• State of California Wildlife Conservation Board
• California Coastal Commission
• San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board
• USFWS Endangered Species Program
• USFWS Habitat Species Conservation Planning (HCP)
• USFWS Critical Habitat for Listed Species
• U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Regulatory Program

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Species sensitivity status lists

State of California Species Lists, including:

• Species of special concern
• State endangered, threatened and rare species
• Fully protected species

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Species Lists, including:

• Federally listed endangered or threatened species
• Candidates for federal listing
• Species proposed for federal listing
• Delisted species

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Climate

• Western Regional Climate Center
• Past and Current San Diego Climate Information - National Weather Service

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Mapping tools

• San Diego Geographic Information Source
• Critical Habitat Portal for Threatened and Endangered Species
• Soil Survey - U.S. Department of Agriculture
• GeoSpatial Natural Resources Data Gateway - U.S. Department of Agriculture

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Other resources

The following are additional resources that may be of interest:

• California Native Plant Society (CNPS) - statewide, and San Diego Chapter
• Rare Plants of San Diego County (Reiser 1994) - natural history and distribution info
• San Diego Wildflowers (Ken Bowles) - identification keys and photographs
• Wildflowers and Other Plants of Southern California - photographs by M. L. Charters
• Field Guide to San Diego County: Plants (Tom Chester) - all kinds of plant information
• BugFinder - Exploring California's Insects
• California Reptiles and Amphibians - photos and natural history information
• Bird Friends of San Diego County - field guide, birding hot spots
• California Partners in Flight - dedicated to conservation of resident and migratory birds
• North American Bird Sounds - recordings of calls and other types of sounds
• The Coastal Scrub and Chaparral Bird Conservation Plan
• Bats of San Diego County - a field guide
• Mammals of California (American Society of Mammalogists) - a checklist
• San Diego Tracking Team
• Nature Tracking - photographs of wildlife tracks
• California Invasive Plant Council (Cal-IPC)
• San Diego Fire Recovery Network
• The California Chaparral Institute - information about wildfires
• The Nature Conservancy
• Preserve Calavera - devoted to conservation in North County
• Sierra Club - San Diego Chapter
• TerraServer - a mapping tool

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