Fishes - Sierra Nevada Foothill Streams [ds215]

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Index of biotic integrity, IBI, multi-species conservation plans, bigscale logperch, bluegill, black bullhead, brown bullhead, brown trout, Chinook salmon, common carp, green sunfish, golden shiner, hitch, hardhead, lamprey, largemouth bass, Pacific lamprey, pit sculpin, prickly sculpin, pumpkinseed, rainbow trout, redear sunfish, Sacramento pikeminnow, Sacramento sucker, smallmouth bass, speckled dace, spotted bass, steelhead, Western mosquitofish, white catfish, white crappie, American basin, Dry Creek, Secret Ravine, Miners Ravine, Auburn Ravine, Coon Creek, Sierra Nevada foothills, Placer County, Sutter County, Sacramento County.


Summary

The purpose was to collect inland fisheries data on streams in the American Basin to use in resource assessments of natural communities in the Sierra Nevada foothill region. DATA ASSUMPTIONS AND LIMITATIONS Users should assume data collection was performed in an unbiased manner and equal effort was expended at each sampling location allowing the comparison of relative values. KNOWN CAVEATS OF THE DATA Each point represents the approximate location of the beginning of each sampling location, i.e. reach. The placement of points were determined based on verbal descriptions of sampling locations and GPS events recorded during surveys.

Description

This dataset is derived from inland fisheries surveys conducted in the American Basin (Placer County) on streams that drain into the lower Sacramento River. It represents a portion of a larger effort by the California Department of Fish and Game (DFG), Native and Anadromous Fisheries and Wildlife Branch (NAFWB) Stream Evaluation Program to gather biological information to be used in resource assessments of natural communities in the Sierra Nevada foothill region. The removal method was utilized to estimate population size, relative species abundance, species composition and size structure of native and non-native fishes in Auburn Ravine, Coon Creek, Secret Ravine, Miners Ravine and Dry Creek in the American basin. Multiple-pass electrofishing was conducted in 10 to 12 reaches in each stream during two major sampling events occurring in summer/early fall 2004 and in spring 2005.

WHAT EACH RECORD REPRESENTS Each record represents the survey date, time, location, sampling effort expended for each pass, electrofisher settings and total number of fish species captured during each pass in each reach. There are 149 records for 43 sampling sites.

Credits

California Department of Fish and Wildlife

Use limitations

Disclaimer: The State makes no claims, promises, or guarantees about the accuracy, completeness, reliability, or adequacy of these data and expressly disclaims liability for errors and omissions in these data. No warranty of any kind, implied, expressed, or statutory, including but not limited to the warranties of non-infringement of third party rights, title, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and freedom from computer virus, is given with respect to these data.

Extent

West -121.509049 East -121.093655
North 38.982118 South 38.668377

Scale Range
Maximum (zoomed in) 1:5,000
Minimum (zoomed out) 1:150,000,000

ArcGIS Metadata

Topics and Keywords

Content type Downloadable Data


Place keywords American basin, Dry Creek, Secret Ravine, Miners Ravine, Auburn Ravine, Coon Creek, Sierra Nevada foothills, Placer County, Sutter County, Sacramento County.

Theme keywords Index of biotic integrity, IBI, multi-species conservation plans, bigscale logperch, bluegill, black bullhead, brown bullhead, brown trout, Chinook salmon, common carp, green sunfish, golden shiner, hitch, hardhead, lamprey, largemouth bass, Pacific lamprey, pit sculpin, prickly sculpin, pumpkinseed, rainbow trout, redear sunfish, Sacramento pikeminnow, Sacramento sucker, smallmouth bass, speckled dace, spotted bass, steelhead, Western mosquitofish, white catfish, white crappie

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Title Reference to a formally registered thesaurus or a similar authoritative source of theme keywords.




Citation

Title Fishes - Sierra Nevada Foothill Streams [ds215]


Presentation formats digital map
FGDC geospatial presentation format vector digital data


Citation Contacts

Responsible party
Organization's name Rob Titus
Contact's role originator


Resource Details

Dataset languages English(UNITED STATES)


Status under development
Spatial representation type vector


Supplemental information
DATA COMPILATION HISTORY Since its inception in the late 1920's, DFG has conducted systematic assessments of stream fishery resources. Initially, these surveys focused on identifying opportunities to supplement natural spawning populations of primarily stream salmonids with hatchery production to enhance sport fishing. Protocols used in recent decades have included a visual assessment of basic stream habitat attributes that provide a useful snapshot of a stream's overall condition with regard to flow conditions, spawning and rearing habitat availability and quality, migration barriers, etc. In most cases, the emphasis has remained on stream salmonids and conditions for their production, although observations on other fish species and amphibians are often included. When conducted on a roughly decadal basis, these surveys are very useful for assessing gross long-term trends in stream habitat quality and species status within a given stream system, and thus represent an important source of historical information on California's stream resources (e.g., Titus et al., in prep.). During the last decade or so, natural resource management has undergone a major paradigm shift from traditional management of single species, often solely for the purpose of exploitation, to one that embraces a community to ecosystem-based approach to conservation. Within the purview of assessing California's stream fishery resources, this shift in management philosophy necessitates the development of new resource assessment tools that build upon those used to-date by DFG to evaluate stream fish communities and the systems that support them. Ideally, these tools would allow for landscape-level assessment of fish communities both within and across stream systems on a regional basis, and would allow for objective assessment through time as well. Among potential tools for making such assessments are indices of biotic integrity, or IBIs. Karr (1981) first described the underlying concepts for using fish communities to assess the gross ecological health of watersheds. He developed metrics based on species diversity and abundance in Midwestern U.S. streams where scores were assigned to specific attributes of fish samples on a site specific basis, and which resulted in a composite numerical score that served as an index of stream habitat health along a continuous scale. Building upon the basic approach of Karr (1981) and others, Moyle and Marchetti (1999) described three IBIs that have been developed and applied for assessing the health of streams and watersheds in California's Central Valley foothill and Sierra Nevada regions. Small stream systems in the Sierra Nevada foothill region of California are considered "at-risk" due to high development pressure. The DFG is currently placing a high priority on the development of resource assessment information in the foothill region, with emphasis on natural communities. This information is needed in the formulation of multiple-species conservation plans (e.g. Placer County Natural Community Conservation Planning process) and for analyzing environmental impacts relative to proposed development projects. SAMPLING METHOD The removal method (Zippin 1958 in Armour et al. 1983) was used to estimate species abundances in stream sections sampled where practicable. Ten to twelve reaches in each stream were selected and isolated with block nets at their upstream and downstream ends to meet the assumtion of a closed population. A backpack electrofisher was used to sample fishes where each upstream sweep consituted a removal pass. Based on habitat type, 2-4 removal passes were made to yield acceptable capture probabilities. When abundance estimates could not be made, a single upstream sweep was made to determine species composition, relative abundance and size structure by species. SPATIAL DATA CAPTURE METHODS A GPS unit was used to record the down-stream end of each sample section. NATIVE DATA FORMAT MS Access database REFERENCES Armour CL, Burnham KP and Platts WS. 1983. Field methods and statistical analyses for monitoring small salmonid streams. US Fish and Wildlife Service FWS/OBS-83/33. Karr JR 1981. Assessment of biotic integrity using fish communities. Fisheries 6:21-27. Moyle PB and Marchetti MP. 1999. Applications of indices of biotic integrity to California streams and watersheds. In: TP Simon, ed. 1999. Assessing the sustainability and biological integrity of water resources using fish communities. CRC Press, Boca Raton. Titus RG, Erman DC and Snider WM. in prep. History and status of steelhead in California coastal drainages south of San Francisco Bay. Targeted for publication as a Fish and Game Fish Bulletin. Zippin C. 1958. The removal method of population estimation. Journal of Wildlife Management 22:82-90.
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Credits
California Department of Fish and Wildlife
ArcGIS item properties
Name ds215
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Access protocol Local Area Network

Extents

Extent
Geographic extent
Bounding rectangle
West longitude -121.509049
East longitude -121.093655
North latitude 38.982118
South latitude 38.668377
Extent contains the resource Yes

Extent
Description
ground condition
Extent
Geographic extent
Bounding rectangle
Extent type Extent used for searching
* West longitude -121.509049
* East longitude -121.093655
* North latitude 38.982118
* South latitude 38.668377
* Extent contains the resource Yes

Extent in the item's coordinate system
West longitude -130605.223426
East longitude -95046.539425
South latitude 73514.355365
North latitude 107902.415749
Extent contains the resource Yes

Resource Points of Contact

Point of contact
Individual's name Ron Rogers
Organization's name California Department of Fish and Game
Contact's position Environmental Scientist
Contact's role point of contact


Contact information
Phone
Voice 916-322-1869

Address
Type both
Delivery point 1807 13th Street, Ste 202
City Sacramento
Administrative area CA
Postal code 95814
Country US
e-mail address rrogers@dfg.ca.gov



Resource Maintenance

Resource maintenance
Update frequency as needed


Resource Constraints

Constraints
Limitations of use

Disclaimer: The State makes no claims, promises, or guarantees about the accuracy, completeness, reliability, or adequacy of these data and expressly disclaims liability for errors and omissions in these data. No warranty of any kind, implied, expressed, or statutory, including but not limited to the warranties of non-infringement of third party rights, title, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and freedom from computer virus, is given with respect to these data.


Spatial Reference

ArcGIS coordinate system
Type Projected
Geographic coordinate reference GCS_North_American_1983
Projection Custom
Coordinate reference details
Projected coordinate system
X origin -16909700
Y origin -8597000
XY scale 10000
Z origin -100000
Z scale 10000
M origin -100000
M scale 10000
XY tolerance 0.001
Z tolerance 0.001
M tolerance 0.001
High precision true
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Spatial Data Properties

Vector
* Level of topology for this dataset geometry only


Geometric objects
Feature class name ds215
* Object type point
* Object count 0



ArcGIS Feature Class Properties
Feature class name ds215
* Feature type Simple
* Geometry type Point
* Has topology FALSE
* Feature count 0
* Spatial index TRUE
* Linear referencing FALSE



Data Quality

Lineage

Source data
Source medium name ms acess database
Source citation
Title RAP Foothill Streams


Presentation formats digital map
FGDC geospatial presentation format vector digital data


Responsible party
Organization's name Rob Titus, California Department of Fish and Game
Contact's role originator




Extent of the source data
Description
ground condition


Geoprocessing history

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Distribution

Distribution format
* Name File Geodatabase Feature Class


Transfer options
Online source
Location https://wildlife.ca.gov/Data/BIOS
Function performed information

Fields

Details for object ds215
* Type Feature Class
* Row count 0


Field SHAPE
* Alias STREAM_
* Data type String
* Width 15
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
* Field description
Feature geometry.
* Description source
ESRI
* Description of values
Coordinates defining the features.




Field FROMY
* Alias OBJECTID
* Data type OID
* Width 4
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
Field description
Y coordinate
* Description source
Esri
* Description of values
Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.




Field STREAM_
* Alias Shape
* Data type Geometry
* Width 0
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
Field description
Stream name.
* Description source
ESRI
* Description of values
Coordinates defining the features.




Field Shape
* Alias SID
* Data type Integer
* Width 4
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
* Field description
Feature geometry.
* Description source
ESRI
* Description of values
Coordinates defining the features.




Field SID
* Alias YEAR
* Data type Integer
* Width 4
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
Field description
An internal identification number used to force the records into the proper sort order.


Field YEAR
* Alias DATE_
* Data type Date
* Width 8
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
Field description
The year sampling occurred.


Field DATE_
* Alias JULIAN_DAY
* Data type Integer
* Width 4
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
Field description
Sampling date, mm/dd/yyyy


Field JULIAN_DAY
* Alias WEEK
* Data type Integer
* Width 4
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
Field description
The equivalent Julian day of the sampling date.


Field WEEK
* Alias SECTION
* Data type String
* Width 5
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
Field description
The week number of the year in which sampling took place.


Field SECTION
* Alias REACH
* Data type Integer
* Width 4
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
Field description
Number of the stream section. The section number is comprised of a unique stream number followed by the reach number.


Field REACH
* Alias PASS
* Data type Double
* Width 8
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
Field description
Reach number of the stream. [Rob, how is reach defined?]


Field PASS
* Alias TIME
* Data type String
* Width 12
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
Field description
The number of the sampling pass by the field crew.


Field TIME
* Alias EFFORT
* Data type Integer
* Width 4
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
Field description
Time of day of sampling.


Field EFFORT
* Alias VOLTS
* Data type Integer
* Width 4
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
Field description
The duration of each pass measured in seconds.


Field VOLTS
* Alias FREQ
* Data type Integer
* Width 4
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
Field description
The voltage setting of the electrofisher during a pass.


Field FREQ
* Alias SH_RBT
* Data type Integer
* Width 4
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
Field description
The electromagnetic frequency used by the electrofisher during a pass.


Field SH_RBT
* Alias CS_F
* Data type Integer
* Width 4
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
Field description
The number of steelhead and/or rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) captured during a pass. [Rob, can we increase the size of the attribute names to make them more descriptive?]


Field CS_F
* Alias CS_LF
* Data type Integer
* Width 4
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
Field description
The number of fall-run Chinook salmon (O. tshawytscha) captured during a pass.


Field CS_LF
* Alias CS_W
* Data type Integer
* Width 4
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
Field description
The number of late fall-run Chinook salmon (O. tshawytscha) captured during a pass.


Field CS_W
* Alias CS_S
* Data type Integer
* Width 4
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
Field description
The number of winter-run Chinook salmon (O. tshawytscha) captured during a pass.


Field CS_S
* Alias LPAM
* Data type Integer
* Width 4
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
Field description
The number of summer-run Chinook salmon (O. tshawytscha) captured during a pass.


Field LPAM
* Alias LPJUV
* Data type Integer
* Width 4
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
Field description
The number of lamprey ammocetes (Lampetra species) captured during a pass.


Field LPJUV
* Alias PLPJUV
* Data type Integer
* Width 4
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
Field description
The number of juvenile lamprey (Lampetra species) captured during a pass.


Field PLPJUV
* Alias SQ
* Data type Integer
* Width 4
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
Field description
The number of juvenile Pacific lamprey (L. tridentata) captured during a pass.


Field SQ
* Alias HH
* Data type Integer
* Width 4
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
Field description
The number of Sacramento pikeminnow (Ptychocheilus grandis) captured during a pass.


Field HH
* Alias HCH
* Data type Integer
* Width 4
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
Field description
The number of hardheads (Mylopharodon conocephalus) captured during a pass.


Field HCH
* Alias SDC
* Data type Integer
* Width 4
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
Field description
The number of hitch (Lavinia exilicauda) captured during a pass.


Field SDC
* Alias PRS
* Data type Integer
* Width 4
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
Field description
The number of speckled dace (Rhinichthys osculus) captured during a pass.


Field PRS
* Alias SKR
* Data type Integer
* Width 4
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
Field description
The number of prickly sculpin (Cottus asper) captured during a pass.


Field SKR
* Alias PSCP
* Data type Integer
* Width 4
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
Field description
The number of Sacramento suckers (Catostomus occidentalis) captured during a pass.


Field PSCP
* Alias BNT
* Data type Integer
* Width 4
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
Field description
The number of pit sculpin (Cottus pitensis) captured during a pass.


Field BNT
* Alias GSH
* Data type Integer
* Width 4
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
Field description
The number of brown trout (Salmo trutta) captured during a pass.


Field GSH
* Alias WCF
* Data type Integer
* Width 4
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
Field description
The number of golden shiners (Notemigonus crysoleucas) captured during a pass.


Field WCF
* Alias BLB
* Data type Integer
* Width 4
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
Field description
The number of white catfish (Ameiurus catus) captured during a pass.


Field BLB
* Alias BB
* Data type Integer
* Width 4
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
Field description
The number of black bullheads (A. melas) captured during a pass.


Field BB
* Alias ICTJUV
* Data type Integer
* Width 4
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
Field description
The number of brown bullhead (A. nebulosus) captured during a pass.


Field ICTJUV
* Alias LMB
* Data type Integer
* Width 4
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
Field description
The number of juvenile Ictalurid fishes captured during a pass.


Field LMB
* Alias SMB
* Data type Integer
* Width 4
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
Field description
The number of largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) captured during a pass.


Field SMB
* Alias SPB
* Data type Integer
* Width 4
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
Field description
The number of smallmouth bass (M. dolomieu) captured during a pass.


Field SPB
* Alias BG
* Data type Integer
* Width 4
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
Field description
The number of spotted bass (M. punctulatus) captured during a pass.


Field BG
* Alias GSF
* Data type Integer
* Width 4
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
Field description
The number of bluegills (Lepomis macrochirus) captured during a pass.


Field GSF
* Alias PSD
* Data type Integer
* Width 4
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
Field description
The number of green sunfish (L. cyanellus) captured during a pass.


Field PSD
* Alias RSF
* Data type Integer
* Width 4
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
Field description
The number of pumpkinseeds (L. gibbosus) captured during a pass.


Field RSF
* Alias WCR
* Data type Integer
* Width 4
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
Field description
The number of redear sunfish (L. microlophus) captured during a pass.


Field WCR
* Alias LEPJUV
* Data type Integer
* Width 4
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
Field description
The number of white crappie (Pomoxis annularis) captured during a pass. Data for this attribute were not collected during the first survey in 2004.


Field LEPJUV
* Alias LEP_SP
* Data type Integer
* Width 4
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
Field description
The number of juvenile Lepomis species (unidentifiable to species) captured during a pass.


Field LEP_SP
* Alias GAM
* Data type String
* Width 50
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
Field description
The number of Lepomis species (unidentifiable to species) captured during a pass.


Field GAM
* Alias BLP
* Data type Integer
* Width 4
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
Field description
The number of Western mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis) captured during a pass.


Field BLP
* Alias CP
* Data type Integer
* Width 4
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
Field description
The number of bigscale logperch (Percina macrolepida) captured during a pass.


Field CP
* Alias NOTE_
* Data type String
* Width 200
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
Field description
The number of common carp (Cyprinus carpio) captured during a pass. Data for this attribute were not collected during the first survey in 2004.


Field NOTE_
* Alias FROMX
* Data type Double
* Width 8
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
Field description
Contains notes pertaining to sampling locations.


Field FROMX
* Alias FROMY
* Data type Double
* Width 8
* Precision 0
* Scale 0
Field description
X coordinate




Metadata Details

Metadata language English(UNITED STATES)
Metadata character set utf8 - 8 bit UCS Transfer Format


Scope of the data described by the metadata dataset
Scope name * dataset


* Last update 2022-04-14


ArcGIS metadata properties
Metadata format ArcGIS1.0
Standard or profile used to edit metadata FGDC


Created in ArcGIS for the item 2022-04-1410:56:16
Last modified in ArcGIS for the item 2022-04-1410:56:08


Automatic updates
Have been performed Yes
Last update 2022-04-1410:56:08


Metadata Contacts

Metadata contact
Individual's name Jeanine Phillips
Organization's name California Department of Fish and Game
Contact's position Associate Biogeographic Analyst
Contact's role point of contact


Contact information
Phone
Voice 916-322-2410

Address
Type both
Delivery point 1807 13th Street, Ste 202
City Sacramento
Administrative area CA
Postal code 95814
Country US
e-mail address jphillips@dfg.ca.gov



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