Units displayed by agency level (Federal, Non Profit, State, Special District, County, City, or Private). The California Protected Areas Database (CPAD) 2021a is a GIS inventory of all protected park and open space lands in California. The database contains lands held in fee ownership by public agencies and non-profits - it does not contain data on private conservation and other similar public agency easements. CPAD is more completely described in the CPAD Manual (http://www.calands.org). The lands in the database range from huge national forests to very small urban parks. Federal, state, county, city, special district and non-governmental agency holdings are included and have been mapped at high levels of accuracy.
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