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    • BLM CA California Desert National Conservation Lands

    Metadata Updated: April 5, 2025

    Dataset of feature classes for Conservation Lands of the California Desert within NLCS. In 1976, Congress designated a 25-million acre expanse of resource-rich desert lands in southern California as the California Desert Conservation Area (CDCA) through the Federal Land Policy and Management Act. In 2009, Congress, passed the Omnibus Public Land Management Act, which directed the BLM to include lands managed for conservation purposes within the CDCA as part of the National Conservation Lands. To protect this area's natural resources and facilitate development of its energy resources, the Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan was undertaken in 2013. This collaborative, multi-stakeholder, landscape-scale planning effort comprises 22.5 million acres in the desert regions of seven California counties, 10.8 million acres of which are BLM lands.

    Phase I of the DRECP was completed in September 2016. It designated 4.2 million acres as part of the National Conservation Lands of the California Desert. Much of this land was already a part of the National Conservation Lands (in particular, large portions of the Mojave Trails and Sand to Snow National Monuments), but 2.89 million acres were a new addition to the system. National Conservation Lands of the California Desert are closed to all energy development.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: us-pd

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    Metadata Created Date April 3, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date April 5, 2025

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    Harvested from DOI EDI

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date April 3, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date April 5, 2025
    Publisher Bureau of Land Management
    Maintainer
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    Data First Published 2025-04-02T03:31:39Z
    Data Last Modified 2025-04-02T15:35:50Z
    Category geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 010:04
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    Harvest Source Id 52bfcc16-6e15-478f-809a-b1bc76f1aeda
    Harvest Source Title DOI EDI
    Homepage URL https://gbp-blm-egis.hub.arcgis.com/datasets/BLM-EGIS::blm-ca-california-desert-national-conservation-lands
    License http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -118.3502,32.6966,-114.2033,37.3715
    Program Code 010:000
    Publisher Hierarchy White House > U.S. Department of the Interior > Bureau of Land Management
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 57c3cd2dd79724a6ac22a970b34245bf17d81eff16a6c7f694ad48416444fb0c
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